Analysis of Modern Love XXXII: Full Faith I Have
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
Full faith I have she holds that rarest gift
To beauty, Common Sense. To see her lie
With her fair visage an inverted sky
Bloom-covered, while the underlids uplift,
Would almost wreck the faith; but when her mouth
(Can it kiss sweetly? sweetly!) would address
The inner me that thirsts for her no less,
And has so long been languishing in drouth,
I feel that I am matched; that I am man!
One restless corner of my heart or head,
That holds a dying something never dead,
Still frets, though Nature giveth all she can.
It means, that woman is not, I opine,
Her sex's antidote. Who seeks the asp
For serpent's bites? 'Twould calm me could I clasp
Shrieking Bacchantes with their souls of wine!
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Metre | 1111111101 1101011101 1011010101 11010110 111011101 111101011 0101111011 0111110001 1111111111 1101011111 1101010101 1111010111 1111011101 01101101 1101111111 10111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 698 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 538 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 126 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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