Analysis of Manfred
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
Projected from the bilious Childe,
This clatterjaw his foot could set
On Alps, without a breast beguiled
To glow in shedding rascal sweat.
Somewhere about his grinder teeth,
He mouthed of thoughts that grilled beneath,
And summoned Nature to her feud
With bile and buskin Attitude.
Considerably was the world
Of spinsterdom and clergy racked
While he his hinted horrors hurled,
And she pictorially attacked.
A duel hugeous. Tragic? Ho!
The cities, not the mountains, blow
Such bladders; in their shapes confessed
An after-dinner's indigest.
Scheme | XAXABBCC DEDEFFGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010101001 111111 11010101 11010101 1011101 11111101 01010101 110110 01000101 110101 11110101 01101 0101101 01010101 11001101 1101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 536 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 220 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 06, 2023
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