Analysis of I Need Not Go

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



I need not go
Through sleet and snow
To where I know
She waits for me;
She will wait me there
Till I find it fair,
And have time to spare
From company.

When I've overgot
The world somewhat,
When things cost not
Such stress and strain,
Is soon enough
By cypress sough
To tell my Love
I am come again.

And if some day,
When none cries nay,
I still delay
To seek her side,
(Though ample measure
Of fitting leisure
Await my pleasure)
She will not chide.

What--not upbraid me
That I delayed me,
Nor ask what stayed me
So long? Ah, no! -
New cares may claim me,
New loves inflame me,
She will not blame me,
But suffer it so.


Scheme AAABCCCB DDDXEEXX DFFDGGGD BBBABBBA
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 1101 1111 1111 11111 11111 01111 1100 111 0111 1111 1101 1101 1101 1111 11101 0111 1111 1101 1101 11010 11010 01110 1111 1111 11011 11111 1111 11111 11011 11111 11011
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 626
Words 126
Sentences 7
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8, 8
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 118
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Modified on May 02, 2023

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Thomas Hardy

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