Analysis of Love's Grave
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
MARK where the pressing wind shoots javelin-like,
Its skeleton shadow on the broad-back'd wave!
Here is a fitting spot to dig Love's grave;
Here where the ponderous breakers plunge and strike,
And dart their hissing tongues high up the sand:
In hearing of the ocean, and in sight
Of those ribb'd wind-streaks running into white.
If I the death of Love had deeply plann'd,
I never could have made it half so sure,
As by the unblest kisses which upbraid
The full-waked sense; or failing that, degrade!
'Tis morning: but no morning can restore
What we have forfeited. I see no sin:
The wrong is mix'd. In tragic life, God wot,
No villain need be! Passions spin the plot:
We are betray'd by what is false within.
Scheme | ABBACDDCEFFGHCIH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111001 1100110111 1101011111 11010010101 0111011101 0101010001 1111110011 1101111101 1101111111 11011011 0111110101 1101110101 1111001111 0111010111 1101110101 1101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 716 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 550 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 127 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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