Analysis of Two Lovers
George Eliot 1819 (Nuneaton, Warwickshire) – 1880 (Chelsea, London)
Two lovers by a moss-grown spring:
They leaned soft cheeks together there,
Mingled the dark and sunny hair,
And heard the wooing thrushes sing.
O budding time!
O love's blest prime!
Two wedded from the portal stept:
The bells made happy carolings,
The air was soft as fanning wings,
White petals on the pathway slept.
O pure-eyed bride!
O tender pride!
Two faces o'er a cradle bent:
Two hands above the head were locked:
These pressed each other while they rocked,
Those watched a life that love had sent.
O solemn hour!
O hidden power!
Two parents by the evening fire:
The red light fell about their knees
On heads that rose by slow degrees
Like buds upon the lily spire.
O patient life!
O tender strife!
The two still sat together there,
The red light shone about their knees;
But all the heads by slow degrees
Had gone and left that lonely pair.
O voyage fast!
O vanished past!
The red light shone upon the floor
And made the space between them wide;
They drew their chairs up side by side,
Their pale cheeks joined, and said, "Once more!"
O memories!
O past that is!
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Metre | 11010111 11110101 10010101 01010101 1101 1111 11010101 011101 01111101 1101011 1111 1101 110100101 11010101 11110111 11011111 11010 11010 110101010 01110111 11111101 11010101 1101 1101 01110101 01110111 11011101 11011101 1101 1101 01110101 01010111 11111111 11110111 1100 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,044 |
Words | 199 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 139 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 23, 2023
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