Analysis of Breath Of The Briar
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
O briar-scents, on yon wet wing
Of warm South-west wind brushing by,
You mind me of the sweetest thing
That ever mingled frank and shy:
When she and I, by love enticed,
Beneath the orchard-apples met,
In equal halves a ripe one sliced,
And smelt the juices ere we ate.
That apple of the briar-scent,
Among our lost in Britain now,
Was green of rind, and redolent
Of sweetness as a milking cow.
The briar gives it back, well nigh
The damsel with her teeth on it;
Her twinkle between frank and shy,
My thirst to bite where she had bit.
Scheme | ABABCXCX XDXDBEBE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011111 11111101 11110101 11010101 11011101 01010101 01010111 01010111 11010101 011010101 11110100 11010101 01011111 01010111 01001101 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 529 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 207 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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