Analysis of Angela Burdett-Coutts
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
Long with us, now she leaves us; she has rest
Beneath our sacred sod:
A woman vowed to Good, whom all attest,
The daylight gift of God.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111111111 0110101 0101111101 01111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 140 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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