Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses
Hardy in the war years: "In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'", "Afterwards".
Measured across the book
Across its 3,730 lines, 94% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 93% to 94%). Alliteration runs at 1.25 times what shuffling the words would give (0.27 observed against 0.21 expected). 26% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Moments of Visioniambic dimeter · ABABB · 20 linesThe Voice of Thingsiambic trimeter · 32 lines“We Sat at the Window”iambic trimeter · ABACBDDC · 16 linesAfternoon Service at Mellstockiambic trimeter · ABAB · 12 linesAt the Wicket-Gateanapaestic dimeter · 16 linesIn a Museum Iiambic trimeter · ABAB · 4 linesIn a Museum IIiambic trimeter · ABAB · 4 linesApostrophe to an Old Psalm Tuneiambic trimeter · AABB · 35 linesAt the Word “Farewell”iambic trimeter · ABABCDCD · 32 linesFirst Sight of Her and Afteriambic tetrameter · ABABAB · 12 linesThe Rivaliambic pentameter · 16 linesHeredityiambic trimeter · 12 lines“You Were the Sort That Men Forget”iambic tetrameter · AABB · 20 linesNear Lanivet, 1872iambic trimeter · ABAB · 32 linesJoys of Memoryiambic pentameter · 16 linesTo the Moontrochaic dimeter · 28 linesCopying Architecture in an Old Minster (Wimborne)iambic trimeter · 35 linesTo Shakespeare After Three Hundred Yearsiambic pentameter · ABBCAC · 36 linesQuid Hic Agis?iambic trimeter · AABB · 74 linesOn a Midsummer Evetrochaic trimeter · 85 linesBefore Knowledgeiambic tetrameter · ABCD · 16 linesThe Blinded Birdiambic trimeter · 21 lines“The Wind Blew Words”iambic tetrameter · ABABAB · 18 linesThe Faded Facetrochaic tetrameter · 21 linesThe Riddle Itrochaic dimeter · ABCBACACB · 9 linesThe Riddle IIiambic trimeter · ABCBBACCB · 9 linesThe Dueliambic tetrameter · AABB · 42 linesAt Mayfair Lodgingsiambic trimeter · ABABABA · 28 linesTo My Father’s Violiniambic trimeter · AABCDCDDB · 45 linesThe Statue of Libertyiambic trimeter · 73 linesThe Changeiambic tetrameter · 80 linesThe Young Churchwardeniambic tetrameter · ABBACCB · 21 lines“I Travel as a Phantom Now”iambic tetrameter · ABAB · 12 linesLines to a Movement in Mozart’s E-Flat Symphonyiambic trimeter · 20 lines“In the Seventies”trochaic hexameter · ABBAAB · 24 linesThe Pedigreeiambic trimeter · 37 linesThis Heart a Woman’s Dreamiambic pentameter · AABB · 36 linesWhere They Livediambic trimeter · 18 linesThe Occultationiambic dimeter · ABAB · 8 linesLife Laughs Onwardiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 16 linesThe Peace-Offeringiambic tetrameter · 10 lines“Something Tapped”common measure · ABAB · 12 linesThe Woundiambic trimeter · ABAB · 8 linesA Merrymaking in Questioniambic tetrameter · 35 linesA January Nightshort measure · ABAB · 12 linesA Kissiambic tetrameter · 16 linesThe Announcementcommon measure · 12 linesThe Oxencommon measure · ABAB · 16 linesThe Tressesiambic trimeter · ABBBA · 15 linesThe Photographiambic hexameter · ABAAB · 25 linesOn a Heathiambic tetrameter · 18 linesAn Anniversaryiambic trimeter · 19 linesKingston-Maurward Eweleaseiambic trimeter · ABBA · 17 linesThe Pink Frockiambic tetrameter · 12 linesTransformationsiambic tetrameter · 18 linesIn Her Precinctsiambic pentameter · 10 linesThe Last Signal, (Oct. 11, 1886), a Memory of William Barnestrochaic hexameter · 16 linesThe House of Silenceiambic tetrameter · ABBAAB · 24 linesGreat Thingsiambic trimeter · 32 linesThe Chimesiambic tetrameter · AABCCB · 18 linesThe Figure in the Sceneiambic trimeter · 19 lines“Why Did I Sketch”iambic tetrameter · ABCABC · 19 linesConjectureiambic tetrameter · 18 linesThe Blowiambic tetrameter · 59 linesAt Middle-Field Gate in Februaryiambic tetrameter · ABAAB · 15 linesThe Youth Who Carried a Lightiambic trimeter · 18 linesThe Head Above the Fogiambic tetrameter · ABBBA · 20 linesOverlooking the River Stouriambic trimeter · ABBAAB · 24 linesThe Musical Boxiambic tetrameter · ABCBCA · 36 linesOn Sturminster Foot-Bridge (Onomatopoeic)iambic hexameter · ABAAB · 10 linesRoyal Sponsorsiambic pentameter · 35 linesOld Furnitureiambic pentameter · ABABB · 35 linesA Thought in Two Moodscommon measure · ABAB · 16 linesThe Last Performanceiambic pentameter · 15 lines“You on the Tower”iambic tetrameter · 21 linesThe Interloperiambic pentameter · 35 linesLogs on the Hearth a Memory of a Sisteriambic trimeter · 16 linesThe Sunshadeiambic trimeter · 20 linesThe Ageing Houseiambic dimeter · 18 linesThe Caged Goldfinchiambic pentameter · ABAB · 8 linesAt Madame Tussaud’s in Victorian Yearsanapaestic pentameter · ABAB · 16 linesThe Balletiambic trimeter · ABABCC · 18 linesThe Five Studentsiambic trimeter · ABABCC · 30 linesThe Wind’s Prophecyiambic tetrameter · 41 linesDuring Wind and Rainiambic trimeter · 28 linesHe Prefers Her Earthlyiambic trimeter · 15 linesThe Dollsiambic tetrameter · 16 linesMolly Goneiambic trimeter · AABCBC · 30 linesA Backward Springiambic pentameter · 15 linesLooking Acrossiambic dimeter · 75 linesThe Glimpseanapaestic dimeter · 29 linesThe Pedestrian an Incident of 1883iambic tetrameter · 42 lines“Who’s in the Next Room?”iambic trimeter · ABABB · 20 linesAt a Country Fairiambic pentameter · ABBAA · 20 linesThe Memorial Brass: 186iambic pentameter · 20 linesHer Love-Birdsiambic tetrameter · ABBAAB · 24 linesPaying Callscommon measure · 16 linesThe Upper Birch-Leavesiambic trimeter · 24 lines“It Never Looks Like Summer”common measure · ABAB · 10 linesEverything Comestrochaic trimeter · ABABCCB · 21 linesThe Man with a Pasttrochaic trimeter · ABAABB · 24 linesHe Fears His Good Fortuneiambic trimeter · 22 linesHe Wonders About Himselftrochaic pentameter · ABBA · 12 linesJubilateiambic trimeter · AABB · 28 linesHe Revisits His First Schoolanapaestic trimeter · ABBACCC · 28 lines“I Thought, My Heart”iambic trimeter · 22 linesFragmentiambic pentameter · 26 linesMidnight on the Great Westerniambic pentameter · 20 linesHoneymoon Time at an Inniambic hexameter · 48 linesThe Robiniambic dimeter · 43 linesThe Nettlesiambic pentameter · AABB · 12 linesIn a Waiting-Roomiambic pentameter · AABB · 42 linesThe Clock-Winderanapaestic dimeter · AABB · 44 linesOld Excursionstrochaic trimeter · ABBACDDC · 24 linesThe Masked Faceiambic tetrameter · ABABBA · 18 linesIn a Whispering Galleryiambic trimeter · 21 linesThe Something That Saved Himiambic dimeter · ABABA · 30 linesThe Enemy’s Portraitiambic pentameter · 40 linesImaginingsiambic tetrameter · 18 linesOn the Doorstepiambic tetrameter · 14 linesSigns and Tokensiambic trimeter · 48 linesPaths of Former Timeiambic trimeter · AABB · 24 linesThe Clock of the Yearsiambic dimeter · 30 linesAt the Pianoanapaestic dimeter · ABCDBDACC · 18 linesThe Shadow on the Stoneiambic pentameter · AABB · 24 linesIn the Garden (M. H.)iambic trimeter · 15 linesThe Tree and the Ladyiambic trimeter · ABBA · 16 linesAn Upbraidingcommon measure · 12 linesThe Young Glass-Staineriambic pentameter · ABAB · 8 linesLooking at a Picture on an Anniversaryiambic trimeter · ABABCC · 30 linesThe Choirmaster’s Burialiambic trimeter · 48 linesThe Man Who Forgotcommon measure · ABAB · 28 linesWhile Drawing in a Church-Yardiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 20 lines“For Life I Had Never Cared Greatly”anapaestic dimeter · ABCCAB · 30 lines“Men Who March Away” (Song of the Soldiers)trochaic trimeter · ABBBAAB · 35 linesHis Countryiambic tetrameter · ABAAB · 25 linesEngland to Germany in 1914iambic tetrameter · 18 linesOn the Belgian Expatriationiambic pentameter · 14 linesAn Appeal to America on Behalf of the Belgian Destituteiambic pentameter · 16 linesThe Pity of Itiambic pentameter · 14 linesIn Time of Wars and Tumultsiambic pentameter · 14 linesIn Time of “The Breaking of Nations”iambic trimeter · ABAB · 12 linesCry of the Homeless After the Prussian Invasion of Belgiumiambic tetrameter · 46 lines“Often When Warring”iambic pentameter · 14 linesThen and Nowtrochaic trimeter · 24 linesA Call to National Serviceiambic pentameter · DEF · 14 linesThe Dead and the Living Oneiambic pentameter · AABB · 39 linesA New Year’s Eve in War Timeiambic trimeter · 37 lines“I Met a Man”iambic tetrameter · ABAAAB · 42 lines“I Looked Up from My Writing”common measure · ABAB · 24 linesThe Coming of the Endanapaestic trimeter · ABABA · 30 linesAfterwardsiambic hexameter · ABAB · 22 lines
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