Analysis of Song in the Songless
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
They have no song, the sedges dry,
And still they sing.
It is within my breast they sing,
As I pass by.
Within my breast they touch a string,
They wake a sigh.
There is but sound of sedges dry;
In me they sing.
| Scheme | ABBABAAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111011 0111 11011111 1111 01111101 1101 1111111 0111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 211 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 158 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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