Analysis of To A Skylark
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
O skylark! I see thee and call thee joy!
Thy wings bear thee up to the breast of the dawn;
I see thee no more, but thy song is still
The tongue of the heavens to me!
Thus are the days when I was a boy;
Sweet while I lived in them, dear now they're gone:
I feel them no longer, but still, O still
They tell of the heavens to me.
| Scheme | ABCD ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111110111 11111101101 1111111111 01101011 110111101 1111011111 1111101111 11101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 335 |
| Words | 74 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 122 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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