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
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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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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