Analysis of Penetration And Trust
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
Sleek as a lizard at round of a stone,
The look of her heart slipped out and in.
Sweet on her lord her soft eyes shone,
As innocents clear of a shade of sin.
He laid a finger under her chin,
His arm for her girdle at waist was thrown:
Now, what will happen and who will win,
With me in the fight and my lady lone?
He clasped her, clasping a shape of stone;
Was fire on her eyes till they let him in.
Her breast to a God of the daybeams shone,
And never a corner for serpent sin.
Tranced she stood, with a chattering chin;
Her shrunken form at his feet was thrown:
At home to the death my lord shall win,
When it is no tyrant who leaves me lone!
Scheme | ABAB BABA ABAB BABA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1101011101 011011100 11010111 1100110111 110101001 1110101111 111100111 1100101101 11010111 11010111110 011011011 0100101101 111101001 010111111 111011111 1111101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 645 |
Words | 140 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 123 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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