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.
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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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