Analysis of To A Friend Lost (Tom Taylor)
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
When I remember, friend, whom lost I call,
Because a man beloved is taken hence,
The tender humour and the fire of sense
In your good eyes; how full of heart for all,
And chiefly for the weaker by the wall,
You bore that lamp of sane benevolence;
Then see I round you Death his shadows dense
Divide, and at your feet his emblems fall.
For surely are you one with the white host,
Spirits, whose memory is our vital air,
Through the great love of Earth they had: lo, these,
Like beams that throw the path on tossing seas,
Can bid us feel we keep them in the ghost,
Partakers of a strife they joyed to share.
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Metre | 1101011111 0101011101 0101001011 0111111111 0101010101 1111110100 111111111 0101111101 1101111011 101100110101 1011111111 1111011101 1111111001 11011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 600 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 469 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 118 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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