Analysis of The Return to Nature.

Alice Meynell 1847 (London) – 1922



(I) PROMETHEUS 1-
 IT was the south : mid-everything,
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   Mid-land, mid-summer, noon ;
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 And deep within a limpid spring
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   The mirrored sun of June.

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 Splendour in freshness ! Ah, who stole
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   This sun, this fire, from heaven?
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 He holds it shining in his soul,
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   Prometheus the forgiven.

(II) THETIS2-
 In her bright title poets dare
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   What the wild eye of fancy sees --
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 Similitude -- the clear, the fair
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   Light mystery of images.

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 Round the blue sea I love the best
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   The argent foam played, slender, fleet ;
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 I saw -- past Wordsworth and the rest --
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   Her natural, Greek, and silver feet.


Scheme AB C B C D E D E AF A F A G H G H
Poetic Form
Metre 11 1101110 1 111101 1 0101011 1 010111 1 1010111 1 11110110 1 11110011 1 10010 110 00110101 1 10111101 1 10101 1 11001100 1 10111101 1 01011101 1 11110001 1 010010101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 600
Words 115
Sentences 7
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8, 8
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 13
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 106
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Alice Meynell

Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet. more…

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