Analysis of Dedication To Wilfred And Alice Meynell

Francis Thompson 1859 (City of Preston, Lancashire) – 1907 (London)



If the rose in meek duty
May dedicate humbly
To her grower the beauty
Wherewith she is comely;
If the mine to the miner
The jewels that pined in it,
Earth to diviner
The springs he divined in it;
To the grapes the wine-pitcher
Their juice that was crushed in it,
Viol to its witcher
The music lay hushed in it;
If the lips may pay Gladness
In laughters she wakened,
And the heart to its sadness
Weeping unslakened,
If the hid and sealed coffer,
Whose having not his is,
To the loosers may proffer
Their finding--here this is;
Their lives if all livers
To the Life of all living, -
To you, O dear givers!
I give your own giving.


Scheme AAAABCBCBCBCDADABDBDDEDE
Poetic Form
Metre 1010110 11010 1010010 11110 1011010 0101101 111 011101 1010110 1111101 11110 0101101 101111 0111 0011110 101 1010110 110111 101110 110111 111110 1011110 111110 111110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 612
Words 123
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 24
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 489
Words per stanza (avg) 121
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Francis Thompson

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