Analysis of The Return to Nature.
Alice Meynell 1847 (London) – 1922
(I) PROMETHEUS 1-
IT was the south : mid-everything,
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Mid-land, mid-summer, noon ;
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And deep within a limpid spring
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The mirrored sun of June.
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Splendour in freshness ! Ah, who stole
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This sun, this fire, from heaven?
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He holds it shining in his soul,
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Prometheus the forgiven.
(II) THETIS2-
In her bright title poets dare
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What the wild eye of fancy sees --
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Similitude -- the clear, the fair
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Light mystery of images.
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Round the blue sea I love the best
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The argent foam played, slender, fleet ;
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I saw -- past Wordsworth and the rest --
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Her natural, Greek, and silver feet.
Scheme | AB C B C D E D E AF A F A G H G H |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11 1101110 1 111101 1 0101011 1 010111 1 1010111 1 11110110 1 11110011 1 10010 110 00110101 1 10111101 1 10101 1 11001100 1 10111101 1 01011101 1 11110001 1 010010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 600 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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