Analysis of Modern Love VII: She Issues Radiant
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
She issues radiant from her dressing-room,
Like one prepared to scale an upper sphere:
--By stirring up a lower, much I fear
How deftly that oiled barber lays his bloom
That long-shanked dapper Cupid with frisked curls
Can make known women torturingly fair;
The gold-eyed serpent dwelling in rich hair,
Awakes beneath his magic whisks and twirls.
His art can take the eyes from out my head,
Until I see with eyes of other men;
While deeper knowledge crouches in its den,
And sends a spark up:--is it true we are wed?
Yea! filthiness of body is most vile,
But faithlessness of heart I do hold worse.
The former, it were not so great a curse
To read on the steel-mirror of her smile.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010010101 1101111101 1101010111 1101110111 1111010111 1111011 0111010011 101110101 1111011111 0111111101 110101011 01011111111 11110111 11111111 0101011101 1110110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 689 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 534 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 124 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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