Analysis of The Night Of Trafalgar
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
In the wild October night-time, when the wind raved round the
land,
And the Back-sea met the front-sea, and our doors were blocked
with sand,
And we heard the drub of dead-man's bay, where the bones of
thousands are,
We knew not what the day had done for us at Trafalgar.
Had done,
Had done,
For us at Trafalgar!
'Pull hard, and make the nothe, or down we go!' One says,
says he.
We pulled; and bedtime brought the storm; but snug at home
slept we.
Yet all the while our gallants after fighting through the day,
Were beating up and down the dark, sou'west of Cadiz Bay.
The dark,
The dark,
Sou'west of Cadiz Bay!
The victors and the vanquished then the storm it tossed and tore,
As hard they strove, those worn-out men, upon that surly shore;
Dead Nelson and his half dead crew, his foes from near and far,
Were rolled together on the deep that night at Trafalgar!
The deep,
The deep,
That night at Trafalgar!
Scheme | xaxaxbcDDc xexeffGGf hhbcIIc |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 00101011101110 1 00111011010101 11 0110111111011 101 11110111111010 11 11 111010 110101111111 11 11011011111 11 11011011010101 0101010111011 01 01 11011 01000101011101 11111111011101 11001111111101 01010101111010 01 01 111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 892 |
Words | 173 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 9, 7 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 232 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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