Analysis of By Morning Twilight
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
Night, like a dying mother,
Eyes her young offspring, Day.
The birds are dreamily piping.
And O, my love, my darling!
The night is life ebb'd away:
Away beyond our reach!
A sea that has cast us pale on the beach;
Weeds with the weeds and the pebbles
That hear the lone tamarisk rooted in sand
Sway
With the song of the sea to the land.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010 10111 011110 0111110 01111001 0101101 0111111101 11010010 11011001001 1 101101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 333 |
Words | 68 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 257 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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