Analysis of Continued - III

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



'Tis true the wisdom that my mind exacts
Through contemplation from a heart unbent
By many tempests may be stained and rent:
The summer flies it mightily attracts.
Yet they seem choicer than your sons of facts,
Which scarce give breathing of the sty's content
For their diurnal carnal nourishment:
Which treat with Nature in official pacts.
The deader body Nature could proclaim.
Much life have neither. Let the heavens of wrath
Rattle, then both scud scattering to froth.
But during calms the flies of idle aim
Less put the spirit out, less baffle thirst
For light than swinish grunters, blest or curst.


Scheme ABBAABBACDECBB
Poetic Form
Metre 1101011101 10101011 110111101 0101110001 1111011111 1111010110 1101010100 1111000101 0101010101 11110101011 1011110011 1101011101 1101011101 11111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 599
Words 105
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 488
Words per stanza (avg) 103
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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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