Analysis of Modern Love XXXVII: Along the Garden Terrace
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
Along the garden terrace, under which
A purple valley (lighted at its edge
By smoky torch-flame on the long cloud-ledge
Whereunder dropped the chariot), glimmers rich,
A quiet company we pace, and wait
The dinner-bell in prae-digestive calm.
So sweet up violet banks the Southern balm
Breathes round, we care not if the bell be late:
Though here and there grey seniors question Time
In irritable coughings. With slow foot
The low rosed moon, the face of Music mute,
Begins among her silent bars to climb.
As in and out, in silvery dusk, we thread,
I hear the laugh of Madam, and discern
My Lady's heel before me at each turn.
Our tragedy, is it alive or dead?
Scheme | ABBACDDCEFGEHIIH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101010101 0101010111 1101110111 110100101 0101001101 0101010101 11110010101 1111110111 1101110101 010001111 0111011101 0101010111 10010100111 1101110001 1101011111 10100110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 667 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 517 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 118 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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