Analysis of When I would Imagine
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
When I would image her features,
Comes up a shrouded head:
I touch the outlines, shrinking;
She seems of the wandering dead.
But when love asks for nothing,
And lies on his bed of snow,
The face slips under my eyelids,
All in its living glow.
Like a dark cathedral city,
Whose spires, and domes, and towers
Quiver in violet lightnings,
My soul basks on for hours.
| Scheme | ABCB CDXD XAXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11110010 110101 110110 11101001 1111110 0111111 0111011 101101 10101010 1101010 10010010 1111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 371 |
| Words | 69 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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