Analysis of Society
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
Historic be the survey of our kind,
And how their brave Society took shape.
Lion, wolf, vulture, fox, jackal and ape,
The strong of limb, the keen of nose, we find,
Who, with some jars in harmony, combined,
Their primal instincts taming, to escape
The brawl indecent, and hot passions drape.
Convenience pricked conscience, that the mind.
Thus entered they the field of milder beasts,
Which in some sort of civil order graze,
And do half-homage to the God of Laws.
But are they still for their old ravenous feasts,
Earth gives the edifice they build no base:
They spring another flood of fangs and claws.
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Metre | 01010011101 0111010011 1011011001 0111011111 1111010001 1101010101 0101001101 010110101 1101011101 1011110101 0111010111 11111111001 1101001111 1101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 599 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 474 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 106 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 06, 2023
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