Analysis of Modern Love V: A Message from Her
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
A message from her set his brain aflame.
A world of household matters filled her mind,
Wherein he saw hypocrisy designed:
She treated him as something that is tame,
And but at other provocation bites.
Familiar was her shoulder in the glass,
Through that dark rain: yet it may come to pass
That a changed eye finds such familiar sights
More keenly tempting than new loveliness.
The 'What has been' a moment seemed his own:
The splendours, mysteries, dearer because known,
Nor less divine: Love's inmost sacredness
Called to him, 'Come!'--In his restraining start,
Eyes nurtured to be looked at, scarce could see
A wave of the great waves of Destiny
Convulsed at a checked impulse of the heart.
Scheme | ABBACDDCCEEFGHHG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101011101 011110101 0111010001 1101110111 011100101 0101010001 1111111111 1011110101 11010111 0111010111 0110010011 110111100 1111010101 1101111111 0110111100 110110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 700 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 549 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 119 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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