Analysis of Song (Untitled #2)

George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)



The moon is alone in the sky
As thou in my soul;
The sea takes her image to lie
Where the white ripples roll
All night in a dream,
With the light of her beam,
Hushedly, mournfully, mistily up to the shore.
The pebbles speak low
In the ebb and the flow,
As I when thy voice came at intervals, tuned to adore:
Nought other stirred
Save my heart all unheard
Beating to bliss that is past evermore.


Scheme ABABCCDEEDFFD
Poetic Form
Metre 01101001 11011 01101011 101101 11001 101101 1111101 01011 001001 11111111001101 1101 111101 101111110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 402
Words 80
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 307
Words per stanza (avg) 78
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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George Meredith

George Meredith was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times. more…

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