Analysis of Modern Love X: But Where Began the Change
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
But where began the change; and what's my crime?
The wretch condemned, who has not been arraigned,
Chafes at his sentence. Shall I, unsustained,
Drag on Love's nerveless body thro' all time?
I must have slept, since now I wake. Prepare,
You lovers, to know Love a thing of moods:
Not like hard life, of laws. In Love's deep woods,
I dreamt of loyal Life:--the offence is there!
Love's jealous woods about the sun are curled;
At least, the sun far brighter there did beam.
My crime is, that the puppet of a dream,
I plotted to be worthy of the world.
Oh, had I with my darling helped to mince
The facts of life, you still had seen me go
With hindward feather and with forward toe,
Her much-adored delightful Fairy Prince!
Scheme | ABBACDECFGGFHIIH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010111 0101111101 11110111 111110111 1111111101 1101110111 1111110111 1111010111 1101010111 1101110111 1111010101 1101110101 1111110111 0111111111 111001101 0101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 728 |
Words | 136 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 552 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 133 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 11, 2023
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