Analysis of The Warning
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
We have seen mighty men ballooning high,
And in another moment bump the ground.
He falls; and in his measurement is found
To count some inches o'er the common fry.
'Twas not enough to send him climbing sky,
Yet 'twas enough above his fellows crowned,
Had he less panted. Let his faithful hound
Bark at detractors. He may walk or lie.
Concerns it most ourselves, who with our gas -
This little Isle's insatiable greed
For Continents--filled to inflation burst.
So do ripe nations into squalor pass,
When, driven as herds by their old private thirst,
They scorn the brain's wild search for virtuous light.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010101 0001010101 1100110011 11110100101 1101111101 1101011101 1111011101 1101011111 011100111101 110101001 1100110101 1111001101 11011111101 11011111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 598 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 476 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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