Analysis of Union In Disseverance

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



unset worn to its last vermilion he;
She that star overhead in slow descent:
That white star with the front of angel she;
He undone in his rays of glory spent

Halo, fair as the bow-shot at his rise,
He casts round her, and knows his hour of rest
Incomplete, were the light for which he dies,
Less like joy of the dove that wings to nest.

Lustrous momently, near on earth she sinks;
Life's full throb over breathless and abased:
Yet stand they, though impalpable the links,
One, more one than the bridally embraced.


Scheme ABAB CDCD EBEX
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 0111110101 1111010101 1111011101 1010111101 1011011111 11100111011 0010011111 1111011111 10111111 111101001 1111101 11110101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 511
Words 97
Sentences 3
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 134
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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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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