Analysis of The Promise In Disturbance

George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)



How low when angels fall their black descent,
Our primal thunder tells: known is the pain
Of music, that nigh throning wisdom went,
And one false note cast wailful to the insane.
Now seems the language heard of Love as rain
To make a mire where fruitfulness was meant.
The golden harp gives out a jangled strain,
Too like revolt from heaven's Omnipotent.
But listen in the thought; so may there come
Conception of a newly-added chord,
Commanding space beyond where ear has home.
In labour of the trouble at its fount,
Leads Life to an intelligible Lord
The rebel discords up the sacred mount.


Scheme ABABBABCDEFAEG
Poetic Form
Metre 1111011101 10101011101 110111101 0111111001 1101011111 11011111 0101110101 11011100100 1100011111 0101010101 0101011111 011010111 1111010001 010110101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 600
Words 107
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 473
Words per stanza (avg) 105
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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George Meredith

George Meredith was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times. more…

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