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 |
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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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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 04, 2023
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