Analysis of Joy Is Fleet
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
Joy is fleet,
Sorrow slow.
Love, so sweet,
Sorrow will sow.
Love, that has flown
Ere day's decline,
Love to have known,
Sorrow, be mine!
| Scheme | ABACDEDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111 101 111 1011 1111 1101 1111 1011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 137 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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