Analysis of A Bygone Occasion (Song)

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



That night, that night,
That song, that song!
Will such again be evened quite
Through lifetimes long?

No mirth was shown
To outer seers,
But mood to match has not been known
In modern years.

O eyes that smiled,
O lips that lured;
That such would last was one beguiled
To think ensured!

That night, that night,
That song, that song;
O drink to its recalled delight,
Though tears may throng!


Scheme ABab cxcx dede ABab
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 1111 1111 11011101 111 1111 1101 11111111 0101 1111 1111 11111101 1101 1111 1111 11110101 1111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 383
Words 74
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 76
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy, was not a Scottish Minister, not a Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland nor a Professor of Eccesiastical History at Edinburgh University. more…

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