Analysis of Modern Love XXXVI: My Lady unto Madam
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
My Lady unto Madam makes her bow.
The charm of women is, that even while
You're probed by them for tears, you yet may smile,
Nay, laugh outright, as I have done just now.
The interview was gracious: they anoint
(To me aside) each other with fine praise:
Discriminating compliments they raise,
That hit with wondrous aim on the weak point:
My Lady's nose of Nature might complain.
It is not fashioned aptly to express
Her character of large-browed steadfastness.
But Madam says: Thereof she may be vain!
Now, Madam's faulty feature is a glazed
And inaccessible eye, that has soft fires,
Wide gates, at love-time only. This admires
My Lady. At the two I stand amazed.
Scheme | ABBACDDCEFGEHIJH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010101 0111011101 1111111111 1111111111 010110101 1101110111 010010011 1111011011 1101110101 1111010101 010011110 110111111 111010101 00100111110 1111110101 1101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 673 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 520 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 117 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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