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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