Analysis of Modern Love XXXIX: She Yields
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
She yields: my Lady in her noblest mood
Has yielded: she, my golden-crownèd rose!
The bride of every sense! more sweet than those
Who breathe the violet breath of maidenhood.
O visage of still music in the sky
Soft moon! I feel thy song, my fairest friend!
True harmony within can apprehend
Dumb harmony without. And hark! 'tis nigh!
Belief has struck the note of sound: a gleam
Of living silver shows me where she shook
Her long white fingers down the shadowy brook,
That sings her song, half waking, half in dream.
What two come here to mar this heavenly tune ?
A man is one: the woman bears my name,
And honour. Their hands touch! Am I still tame?
God, what a dancing spectre seems the moon!
Scheme | ABBACDDCEFFEGHHG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111000101 1101110111 01110011111 110100111 1101110001 1111111101 110001101 1100010111 0111011101 1101011111 01110101001 1101110101 11111111001 0111010111 011111111 1101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 703 |
Words | 130 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 538 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 129 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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