Analysis of On a Fine Morning

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



Whence comes Solace?--Not from seeing
What is doing, suffering, being,
Not from noting Life's conditions,
Nor from heeding Time's monitions;
   But in cleaving to the Dream,
   And in gazing at the gleam
   Whereby gray things golden seem.

Thus do I this heyday, holding
Shadows but as lights unfolding,
As no specious show this moment
With its irised embowment;
   But as nothing other than
   Part of a benignant plan;
   Proof that earth was made for man.


Scheme AABBCCC AADDEEE
Poetic Form
Metre 11101110 111010010 11101010 111011 101101 0010101 0111101 1111110 1111010 11101110 1111 1110101 11011 1111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 469
Words 79
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 7, 7
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 175
Words per stanza (avg) 38
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Modified on May 04, 2023

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Thomas Hardy

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