Analysis of The Levelled Churchyard
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
"O passenger, pray list and catch
Our sighs and piteous groans,
Half stifled in this jumbled patch
Of wrenched memorial stones!
"We late-lamented, resting here,
Are mixed to human jam,
And each to each exclaims in fear,
'I know not which I am!'
"The wicked people have annexed
The verses on the good;
A roaring drunkard sports the text
Teetotal Tommy should!
"Where we are huddled none can trace,
And if our names remain,
They pave some path or p-ing place
Where we have never lain!
"There's not a modest maiden elf
But dreads the final Trumpet,
Lest half of her should rise herself,
And half some local strumpet!
"From restorations of Thy fane,
From smoothings of Thy sward,
From zealous Churchmen's pick and plane
Deliver us O Lord! Amen!"
Scheme | ABAB XCXC DEDE FGFG HXHD GXGX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 11001101 101011 11001101 1101001 11010101 111101 01110101 111111 01010110 010101 01010101 1101 11110111 0110101 11111111 111101 11010101 1101010 11101101 011101 1010111 11111 1101101 01011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 785 |
Words | 134 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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