Analysis of By Morning Twilight

George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)



Night, like a dying mother,
Eyes her young offspring, Day.
The birds are dreamily piping.
And O, my love, my darling!
The night is life ebb'd away:
Away beyond our reach!
A sea that has cast us pale on the beach;
Weeds with the weeds and the pebbles
That hear the lone tamarisk rooted in sand
Sway
With the song of the sea to the land.


Scheme ABCCBDDEFBF
Poetic Form
Metre 1101010 10111 011110 0111110 01111001 0101101 0111111101 11010010 11011001001 1 101101101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 333
Words 68
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 257
Words per stanza (avg) 66
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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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