Analysis of Seen By The Waits
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
Through snowy woods and shady
We went to play a tune
To the lonely manor-lady
By the light of the Christmas moon.
We violed till, upward glancing
To where a mirror leaned,
We saw her airily dancing,
Deeming her movements screened;
Dancing alone in the room there,
Thin-draped in her robe of night;
Her postures, glassed in the gloom there,
Were a strange phantasmal sight.
She had learnt (we heard when homing)
That her roving spouse was dead;
Why she had danced in the gloaming
We thought, but never said.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF CGCG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010 111101 10101010 10110101 1111010 110101 110110 10101 10010011 1100111 01010011 00111 11111110 1010111 11110010 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 499 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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