Analysis of Song (Untitled#1)
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
Love within the lover's breast
Burns like Hesper in the west,
O'er the ashes of the sun,
Till the day and night are done;
Then when dawn drives up her car -
Lo! it is the morning star.
Love! thy love pours down on mine
As the sunlight on the vine,
As the snow-rill on the vale,
As the salt breeze in the sail;
As the song unto the bird,
On my lips thy name is heard.
As a dewdrop on the rose
In thy heart my passion glows,
As a skylark to the sky
Up into thy breast I fly;
As a sea-shell of the sea
Ever shall I sing of thee.
Scheme | AABBCC DDEEFF GGHHII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101 1110001 10010101 1010111 1111101 1110101 1111111 101101 1011101 1011001 1011001 1111111 101101 0111101 101101 1011111 1011101 1011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 533 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 131 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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