Analysis of Camelus Saltat

George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)



What say you, critic, now you have become
An author and maternal?--in this trap
(To quote you) of poor hollow folk who rap
On instruments as like as drum to drum.
You snarled tut-tut for welcome to tum-tum,
So like the nose fly-teased in its noon's nap.
You scratched an insect-slaughtering thunder-clap
With that between the fingers and the thumb.
It seemeth mad to quit the Olympian couch,
Which bade our public gobble or reject.
O spectacle of Peter, shrewdly pecked,
Piper, by his own pepper from his pouch!
What of the sneer, the jeer, the voice austere,
You dealt?--the voice austere, the jeer, the sneer.


Scheme ABBAABBACDDCEE
Poetic Form
Metre 1111011101 1100010011 1111110111 1100111111 11011110111 1101110111 1111100101 1101010001 11111001001 11101010101 1100110101 1011110111 1101010101 1101010101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 606
Words 110
Sentences 9
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 474
Words per stanza (avg) 106
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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George Meredith

George Meredith was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times. more…

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