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Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) · 1914

Mixed forms · 3,427 lines in 100 sections

Hardy after Emma's death: "The Convergence of the Twain" and the Poems of 1912-13.

Measured across the book

Across its 3,427 lines, 93% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 93% to 94%). Alliteration runs at 1.22 times what shuffling the words would give (0.28 observed against 0.23 expected). 25% of the lines have a feminine ending.

Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.

Contents

In Front of the Landscapetrochaic dimeter · 72 lines Channel Firingiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 36 lines The Ghost of the Pastiambic tetrameter · AAABCBCB · 40 lines After the Visit (To F. E. D.)iambic tetrameter · ABBA · 24 lines To Meet, or Otherwiseiambic tetrameter · 27 lines The Difference Iiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 4 lines The Difference IIiambic tetrameter · 19 lines “When I Set Out for Lyonnesse”iambic trimeter · ABBAAB · 29 lines The Torn Letteriambic tetrameter · ABBA · 68 lines The Face at the Casementiambic tetrameter · ABBA · 64 lines Lost Loveiambic trimeter · ABBCCA · 18 lines “My Spirit Will Not Haunt the Mound”iambic tetrameter · ABBAB · 15 lines Wessex Heights (1896)iambic tetrameter · AABB · 37 lines In Death Dividediambic tetrameter · ABABB · 25 lines The Place on the Mapiambic tetrameter · 24 lines Where the Picnic Wasiambic pentameter · 98 lines A Plaint to Maniambic pentameter · 32 lines God’s Funeraliambic pentameter · ABAB · 68 lines Spectres That Grieveiambic pentameter · ABAB · 24 lines “Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?”iambic tetrameter · 36 lines At Teaiambic pentameter · 12 lines In Churchiambic pentameter · 13 lines By Her Aunt’s Graveiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 12 lines In the Room of the Bride-Electiambic pentameter · 13 lines At a Watering-Placeiambic pentameter · 12 lines In the Cemeteryiambic pentameter · 14 lines Outside the Windowiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 12 lines In the Studyiambic tetrameter · 21 lines At the Altar-Railiambic pentameter · 14 lines In the Nuptial Chamberiambic tetrameter · 12 lines In the Restaurantiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 12 lines At the Draper’siambic pentameter · 16 lines On the Death-Bediambic pentameter · AABB · 18 lines Over the Coffiniambic pentameter · 14 lines In the Moonlightiambic tetrameter · AABB · 16 lines Self-Unconsciousiambic tetrameter · AABCCB · 48 lines The Discoverytrochaic tetrameter · AABBCC · 12 lines Toleranceiambic tetrameter · AABB · 15 lines Before and After Summer Itrochaic tetrameter · AABB · 10 lines Before and After Summer IItrochaic tetrameter · AABB · 10 lines At Day-Close in Novemberiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 12 lines The Year’s Awakeningiambic tetrameter · 20 lines Under the Waterfalliambic pentameter · AABB · 52 lines The Spell of the Roseiambic tetrameter · 42 lines St. Launce’s Revisitedtrochaic trimeter · ABBA · 28 lines The Goingiambic tetrameter · ABABCCB · 42 lines Your Last Driveiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 30 lines The Walkiambic trimeter · AABBCCDD · 16 lines Rain on a Graveiambic trimeter · 36 lines “I Found Her Out There”iambic trimeter · 40 lines Without Ceremonyiambic tetrameter · 15 lines Lamentanapaestic dimeter · ABABCCDDEEE · 44 lines The Hauntertrochaic trimeter · 32 lines The Voicedactylic tetrameter · ABAB · 16 lines His Visitoriambic heptameter · 20 lines A Circulariambic tetrameter · ABAB · 12 lines A Dream or Noanapaestic tetrameter · ABBA · 24 lines After a Journeytrochaic hexameter · 32 lines A Death-Day Recalledtrochaic trimeter · ABABCDCD · 25 lines At Castle Botereliambic pentameter · ABABB · 35 lines Placesiambic tetrameter · ABBACBC · 28 lines The Phantom Horsewomaniambic trimeter · ABCBCBCAA · 36 lines The Wistful Ladyiambic pentameter · ABCACB · 30 lines The Woman in the Ryeiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 12 lines The Cheval-Glassiambic trimeter · 40 lines The Re-Enactmentiambic tetrameter · 110 lines Her Secretiambic tetrameter · 12 lines “She Charged Me”iambic pentameter · 16 lines The Newcomer’s Wifeiambic tetrameter · AABB · 20 lines A Conversation at Dawniambic pentameter · 196 lines A King’s Soliloquy on the Night of His Funeraliambic dimeter · ABAB · 44 lines The Coronationiambic pentameter · AABB · 48 lines Aquae Sulisiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 28 lines Seventy-Four and Twentyiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 8 lines The Elopementiambic heptameter · AABB · 26 lines “I Rose Up as My Custom Is”iambic tetrameter · 40 lines A Weekiambic tetrameter · AABB · 21 lines Had You Weptiambic heptameter · 18 lines Bereft, She Thinks She Dreamsiambic pentameter · ABABCDCD · 16 lines In the British Museumiambic dimeter · 28 lines In the Servants’ Quartersiambic tetrameter · 41 lines The Obliterate Tombiambic tetrameter · AABB · 144 lines “Regret Not Me”iambic tetrameter · AABB · 30 lines The Recalcitrantsiambic pentameter · ABBAA · 20 lines Starlings on the Roofiambic tetrameter · AABB · 18 lines The Moon Looks in Iiambic trimeter · AABB · 8 lines The Moon Looks in IIiambic trimeter · AABB · 8 lines The Sweet Hussyiambic pentameter · AABB · 12 lines The Telegramiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 61 lines Seen by the Waitstrochaic tetrameter · ABAB · 16 lines The Two Soldiersiambic tetrameter · 24 lines The Death of Regretanapaestic trimeter · 24 lines In the Days of Crinolineiambic tetrameter · ABAAB · 30 lines The Roman Gravemoundsiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 24 lines The Workboxcommon measure · ABAB · 40 lines Part Iiambic tetrameter · 72 lines Part IIiambic tetrameter · AABB · 309 lines The Satin Shoescommon measure · ABAB · 79 lines A Poetiambic tetrameter · AABB · 16 lines Postscript, “Men Who March Away”, (Song of the Soldiers)trochaic trimeter · ABBBAAB · 35 lines

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