Analysis of Wind On The Lyre
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
That was the chirp of Ariel
You heard, as overhead it flew,
The farther going more to dwell,
And wing our green to wed our blue;
But whether note of joy or knell,
Not his own Father-singer knew;
Nor yet can any mortal tell,
Save only how it shivers through;
The breast of us a sounded shell,
The blood of us a lighted dew.
Scheme | ABCBCBCBCB |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 11011100 11110111 01010111 0110111101 11011111 11110101 11110101 11011101 01110101 01110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 321 |
Words | 66 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 248 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 64 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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