Analysis of Sapphic Fragment
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
"Thou shalt be--Nothing."--Omar Khayyam.
"Tombless, with no remembrance."--W. Shakespeare.
Dead shalt thou lie; and nought
Be told of thee or thought,
For thou hast plucked not of the Muses' tree:
And even in Hades' halls
Amidst thy fellow-thralls
No friendly shade thy shade shall company!
| Scheme | XX AABCCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110101 1110101001 111101 111111 1111110101 0100101 011101 1101111100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 307 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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