Analysis of In A Wook
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
PALE beech and pine-tree blue,
Set in one clay,
Bough to bough cannot you
Bide out your day?
When the rains skim and skip,
Why mar sweet comradeship,
Blighting with poison-drip
Neighborly spray?
Heart-halt and spirit-lame,
City-opprest,
Unto this wood I came
As to a nest;
Dreaming that sylvan peace
Offered the harrowed ease--
Nature a soft release
From men's unrest.
But, having entered in,
Great growths and small
Show them to men akin--
Combatants all!
Sycamore shoulders oak,
Bines the slim sapling yoke,
Ivy-spun halters choke
Elms stout and tall.
Touches from ash, O wych,
Sting you like scorn!
You, too, brave hollies, twitch
Sidelong from thorn.
Even the rank poplars bear
Illy a rival's air,
Cankering in black despair
If overborne.
Since, then, no grace I find
Taught me of trees,
Turn I back to my kind,
Worthy as these.
There at least smiles abound,
There discourse trills around,
There, now and then, are found
Life-loyalties.
Scheme | ABABCCCB DEDEFGFE HIHIJJJI KLKLMMMH EGEGEEEG |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (30%) Etheree (23%) |
Metre | 110111 1011 111101 1111 101101 1111 11101 1001 110101 101 101111 1101 101101 10011 100101 1101 110100 1101 111101 0101 10101 101101 101101 1101 101111 1111 111101 111 100111 10101 10101 11 111111 1111 111111 1011 111101 110101 110111 1100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,149 |
Words | 160 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 147 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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