Analysis of A Circular

Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)



As 'legal representative'
I read a missive not my own,
On new designs the senders give
For clothes, in tints as shown.

Here figure blouses, gowns for tea,
And presentation-trains of state,
Charming ball-dresses, millinery,
Warranted up to date.

And this gay-pictured, spring-time shout
Of Fashion, hails what lady proud?
Her who before last year was out
Was costumed in a shroud.


Scheme ABAB XCXC DEDE
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 1100100 11010111 11010101 110111 11010111 0010111 101101 100111 01110111 11011101 01011111 11001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 376
Words 64
Sentences 5
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 100
Words per stanza (avg) 21
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 19, 2023

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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy, was not a Scottish Minister, not a Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland nor a Professor of Eccesiastical History at Edinburgh University. more…

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