Analysis of Poetry
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
THE POETRY OF CHAUCER
Grey with all honours of age! but fresh-featured and ruddy
As dawn when the drowsy farm-yard has thrice heard Chaunticlere.
Tender to tearfulness-childlike, and manly, and motherly;
Here beats true English blood richest joyance on sweet English ground.
THE POETRY OF SPENSER
Lakes where the sunsheen is mystic with splendour and softness;
Vales where sweet life is all Summer with golden romance:
Forests that glimmer with twilight round revel-bright palaces;
Here in our May-blood we wander, careering 'mongst ladies and knights.
THE POETRY OF SHAKESPEARE
Picture some Isle smiling green 'mid the white-foaming ocean; -
Full of old woods, leafy wisdoms, and frolicsome fays;
Passions and pageants; sweet love singing bird-like above it;
Life in all shapes, aims, and fates, is there warm'd by one great human heart.
THE POETRY OF MILTON
Like to some deep-chested organ whose grand inspiration,
Serenely majestic in utterance, lofty and calm,
Interprets to mortals with melody great as its burthen
The mystical harmonies chiming for ever throughout the bright spheres.
THE POETRY OF SOUTHEY
Keen as an eagle whose flight towards the dim empyrean
Fearless of toil or fatigue ever royally wends!
Vast in the cloud-coloured robes of the balm-breathing Orient
Lo! the grand Epic advances, unfolding the humanest truth.
THE POETRY OF COLERIDGE
A brook glancing under green leaves, self-delighting, exulting,
And full of a gurgling melody ever renewed -
Renewed thro' all changes of Heaven, unceasing in sunlight,
Unceasing in moonlight, but hushed in the beams of the holier orb.
THE POETRY OF SHELLEY
See'st thou a Skylark whose glistening winglets ascending
Quiver like pulses beneath the melodious dawn?
Deep in the heart-yearning distance of heaven it flutters -
Wisdom and beauty and love are the treasures it brings down at eve.
THE POETRY OF WORDSWORTH
A breath of the mountains, fresh born in the regions majestic,
That look with their eye-daring summits deep into the sky.
The voice of great Nature; sublime with her lofty conceptions,
Yet earnest and simple as any sweet child of the green lowly vale.
THE POETRY OF KEATS
The song of a nightingale sent thro' a slumbrous valley,
Low-lidded with twilight, and tranced with the dolorous sound,
Tranced with a tender enchantment; the yearning of passion
That wins immortality even while panting delirious with death.
Scheme | A BABC A DXXX X EDXX E EXEX F EXXF X GXXX B GXXX F XXXX X BCEF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0100110 1111111110010 111010111111 101110100100 11110110111101 0100110 110111011010 1111111011001 10110111101100 10101111001011001 010011 10111011011010 1111101011 10010111011011 1011101111111101 0100110 1111101011010 010001001001001 01011011001111 0100100111001011 010011 111101101011 1011101101001 10011011011010 10110010010011 0100110 011010111010010 01101001001001 01111011001001 0100111001101001 0100110 1110111001010 1011001001001 10011010110110 1001001101011111 0100110 011010110010010 11111101010101 011110011010010 11001011011101101 010011 0110100110110 1111011011 11010010010110 11010010110010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 2,398 |
Words | 385 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 18 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 1, 4, 1, 4, 1, 4, 1, 4, 1, 4, 1, 4, 1, 4, 1, 4 |
Lines Amount | 45 |
Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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