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
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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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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