Analysis of His Visitor
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
I come across from Mellstock while the moon wastes weaker
To behold where I lived with you for twenty years and more:
I shall go in the gray, at the passing of the mail-train,
And need no setting open of the long familiar door
As before.
The change I notice in my once own quarters!
A brilliant budded border where the daisies used to be,
The rooms new painted, and the pictures altered,
And other cups and saucers, and no cosy nook for tea
As with me.
I discern the dim faces of the sleep-wrapt servants;
They are not those who tended me through feeble hours and strong,
But strangers quite, who never knew my rule here,
Who never saw me painting, never heard my softling song
Float along.
So I don't want to linger in this re-decked dwelling,
I feel too uneasy at the contrasts I behold,
And I make again for Mellstock to return here never,
And rejoin the roomy silence, and the mute and manifold
Souls of old.
Scheme | ABXBB XCXCC XDXDD XEAEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111101110 10111111110101 11100110101011 01110101010101 101 01110011110 0101101010111 01110001010 01010100110111 111 1010110101110 111111011101001 11011101111 1101110101111 101 1111110011110 1110101010101 0110111101110 00101010001010 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 901 |
Words | 173 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 179 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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