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
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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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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