Analysis of At Day-Close In November

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



The ten hours' light is abating,
And a late bird flies across,
Where the pines, like waltzers waiting,
Give their black heads a toss.

Beech leaves, that yellow the noon-time,
Float past like specks in the eye;
I set every tree in my June time,
And now they obscure the sky.

And the children who ramble through here
Conceive that there never has been
A time when no tall trees grew here,
A time when none will be seen.


Scheme ABAB CDCD EXEX
Poetic Form Quatrain  (67%)
Metre 011011010 0011101 1011110 111101 11110011 1111001 1110010111 0110101 001011011 01111011 01111111 0111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 414
Words 81
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 108
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 27, 2023

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Thomas Hardy

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