Analysis of Modern Love II: It Ended, and the Morrow
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
It ended, and the morrow brought the task.
Her eyes were guilty gates, that let him in
By shutting all too zealous for their sin:
Each sucked a secret, and each wore a mask.
But, oh, the bitter taste her beauty had!
He sickened as at breath of poison-flowers:
A languid humour stole among the hours,
And if their smiles encountered, he went mad,
And raged deep inward, till the light was brown
Before his vision, and the world, forgot,
Looked wicked as some old dull murder-spot.
A star with lurid beams, she seemed to crown
The pit of infamy: and then again
He fainted on his vengefulness, and strove
To ape the magnanimity of love,
And smote himself, a shuddering heap of pain.
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Metre | 1100010101 0101011110 1101110111 1101001101 1101010101 11011111010 0101101010 0111010111 0111010111 0111000101 1101111101 0111011111 0111000101 11011101 110111 01010100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 672 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 530 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 124 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 19, 2023
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