Analysis of Outside The Crowd
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
To sit on History in an easy chair,
Still rivalling the wild hordes by whom 'twas writ!
Sure, this beseems a race of laggard wit,
Unwarned by those plain letters scrawled on air.
If more than hands' and armsful be our share,
Snatch we for substance we see vapours flit.
Have we not heard derision infinite
When old men play the youth to chase the snare?
Let us be belted athletes, matched for foes,
Or stand aloof, the great Benevolent,
The Lord of Lands no Robber-birds annex,
Where Justice holds the scales with pure intent;
Armed to support her sword;--lest we compose
That Chapter for the historic word on Wrecks.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110001101 110111111 111011101 111110111 1111011101 111101111 1111010100 1111011101 111101111 1101010100 011111011 1101011101 1101011101 11010010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 612 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 487 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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