Analysis of Progress
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
In Progress you have little faith, say you:
Men will maintain dear interests, wreak base hates,
By force, and gentle women choose their mates
Most amorously from the gilded fighting crew:
The human heart Bellona's mad halloo
Will ever fire to dicing with the Fates.
'Now at this time,' says History, 'those two States
Stood ready their past wrestling to renew.
They sharpened arms and showed them, like the brutes
Whose haunches quiver. But a yellow blight
Fell on their waxing harvests. They deferred
The bloody settlement of their disputes
Till God should bless them better.' They did right.
And naming Progress, both shall have the word.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011110111 1101110111 1101010111 111010101 0101111 11010110101 11111100111 1101110101 1101011101 111010101 1111010101 0101001101 1111110111 010111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 635 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 512 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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