Analysis of How She Went To Ireland

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



Dora’s gone to Ireland
Through the sleet and snow;
Promptly she has gone there
In a ship, although
Why she’s gone to Ireland
Dora does not know.

That was where, yea, Ireland,
Dora wished to be:
When she felt, in lone times,
Shoots of misery,
Often there, in Ireland,
Dora wished to be.

Hence she’s gone to Ireland,
Since she meant to go,
Through the drift and darkness
Onward labouring, though
That she’s gone to Ireland
Dora does not know.


Scheme abxbaB aCxcaC abxbaB
Poetic Form
Metre 111100 10101 101111 0011 1111100 10111 1111100 10111 111011 11100 1010100 10111 1111100 11111 101010 1011 1111100 10111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 456
Words 82
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 113
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 02, 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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