Analysis of Modern Love XLIX: He Found Her
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
He found her by the ocean's moaning verge,
Nor any wicked change in her discerned;
And she believed his old love had returned,
Which was her exultation, and her scourge.
She took his hand, and walked with him, and seemed
The wife he sought, though shadow-like and dry.
She had one terror, lest her heart should sigh,
And tell her loudly she no longer dreamed.
She dared not say, 'This is my breast: look in.'
But there's a strength to help the desperate weak.
That night he learned how silence best can speak
The awful things when Pity pleads for Sin.
About the middle of the night her call
Was heard, and he came wondering to the bed.
'Now kiss me, dear! it may be, now!' she said.
Lethe had passed those lips, and he knew all.
Scheme | ABBACDDCEFFEGHHG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010101 1101010001 0101111101 1101001 1111011101 011111101 1111010111 0101011101 1111111110 1101110101 1111110111 0101110111 0101010101 11011100101 1111111111 111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 736 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 559 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 137 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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