Analysis of Sense And Spirit
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
The senses loving Earth or well or ill
Ravel yet more the riddle of our lot.
The mind is in their trammels, and lights not
By trimming fear-bred tales; nor does the will
To find in nature things which less may chill
An ardour that desires, unknowing what.
Till we conceive her living we go distraught,
At best but circle-windsails of a mill.
Seeing she lives, and of her joy of life
Creatively has given us blood and breath
For endless war and never wound unhealed,
The gloomy Wherefore of our battle-field
Solves in the Spirit, wrought of her through strife
To read her own and trust her down to death.
| Scheme | ABBAACDAEFBGEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101011111 10110101101 011011011 1101111101 1101011111 1110100101 11010101101 111101101 1011010111 01001101101 110101011 0101110101 1001011011 1101010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 598 |
| Words | 113 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 479 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 111 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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