Analysis of Song (Untitled #4)
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
Two wedded lovers watched the rising moon,
That with her strange mysterious beauty glowing,
Over misty hills and waters flowing,
Crowned the long twilight loveliness of June:
And thus in me, and thus in me, they spake,
The solemn secret of fist love did wake.
Above the hills the blushing orb arose;
Her shape encircled by a radiant bower,
In which the nightingale with charmed power
Poured forth enchantment o'er the dark repose:
And thus in me, and thus in me, they said,
Earth's mists did with the sweet new spirit wed.
Far up the sky with ever purer beam,
Upon the throne of night the moon was seated,
And down the valley glens the shades retreated,
And silver light was on the open stream.
And thus in me, and thus in me, they sighed,
Aspiring Love has hallowed Passion's tide.
Scheme | ABBACC DEEDFF GHHGII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010101 110101001010 1010101010 1011111 0101010111 0101011111 0101010101 010101010010 0101001110 11010100101 0101010111 1111011101 1101110101 01011101110 01010101010 0101110101 0101010111 010111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 790 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 205 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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