Analysis of Song (Untitled #6)

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



The flower unfolds its dawning cup,
And the young sun drinks the star-dews up,
At eve it droops with the bliss of day,
And dreams in the midnight far away.

So am I in thy sole, sweet glance
Pressed with a weight of utterance;
Lovingly all my leaves unfold,
And gleam to the beams of thirsty gold.

At eve I droop, for then the swell
Of feeling falters forth farewell; -
At midnight I am dreaming deep,
Of what has been, in blissful sleep.

When-ah! when will love's own fight
Wed me alike thro' day and night,
When will the stars with their linking charms
Wake us in each other's arms?


Scheme AABB XXCC DDEE FFGG
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 010011101 001110111 111110111 01001101 11101111 11011100 10011101 011011101 11111101 1101011 1111101 11110101 1111111 11011101 110111101 1101101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 591
Words 113
Sentences 6
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 113
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 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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