Analysis of Grace And Love

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



Two flower-enfolding crystal vases she
I love fills daily, mindful but of one:
And close behind pale morn she, like the sun
Priming our world with light, pours, sweet to see,
Clear water in the cup, and into me
The image of herself: and that being done,
Choice of what blooms round her fair garden run
In climbers or in creepers or the tree
She ranges with unerring fingers fine,
To harmony so vivid that through sight
I hear, I have her heavenliness to fold
Beyond the senses, where such love as mine,
Such grace as hers, should the strange Fates withhold
Their starry more from her and me, unite.


Scheme ABBAABBACDECED
Poetic Form
Metre 110110101 1111010111 0101111101 10101111111 1100010011 01010101101 1111101101 010101101 11011101 1100110111 11110111 0101011111 1110101101 110110011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 593
Words 112
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 472
Words per stanza (avg) 110
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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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