Analysis of On Hearing The News From Venice
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
(The Death Of Robert Browning)
Now dumb is he who waked the world to speak,
And voiceless hangs the world beside his bier.
Our words are sobs, our cry of praise a tear:
We are the smitten mortal, we the weak.
We see a spirit on Earth's loftiest peak
Shine, and wing hence the way he makes more clear:
See a great Tree of Life that never sere
Dropped leaf for aught that age or storms might wreak.
Such ending is not Death: such living shows
What wide illumination brightness sheds
From one big heart, to conquer man's old foes:
The coward, and the tyrant, and the force
Of all those weedy monsters raising heads
When Song is murk from springs of turbid source.
December 13, 1889.
Scheme | XAXXAABBACDCEDE X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111010 1111110111 0101010111 101111011101 1101010101 110101111 1011011111 1011111101 1111111111 1101111101 110010101 1111110111 0100010001 1111010101 111111111 010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 672 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 15, 1 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 266 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 64 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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