Analysis of Time And Sentiment
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
I see a fair young couple in a wood,
And as they go, one bends to take a flower,
That so may be embalmed their happy hour,
And in another day, a kindred mood,
Haply together, or in solitude,
Recovered what the teeth of Time devour,
The joy, the bloom, and the illusive power,
Wherewith by their young blood they are endued
To move all enviable, framed in May,
And of an aspect sisterly with Truth:
Yet seek they with Time's laughing things to wed:
Who will be prompted on some pallid day
To lift the hueless flower and show that dead,
Even such, and by this token, is their youth.
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Metre | 1101110001 01111111010 11110111010 0001010101 10101010 01010111010 01010001010 111111101 1111000101 0111111 1111110111 1111011101 1101100111 10101110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 575 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 449 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 111 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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