Analysis of Youth In Age
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
Once I was part of the music I heard
On the boughs or sweet between earth and sky,
For joy of the beating of wings on high
My heart shot into the breast of the bird.
I hear it now and I see it fly,
And a life in wrinkles again is stirred,
My heart shoots into the breast of the bird,
As it will for sheer love till the last long sigh.
| Scheme | ABBA BAAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111101011 1011101101 1110101111 1110101101 111101111 0010100111 1110101101 11111110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 335 |
| Words | 75 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 128 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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