Analysis of Men And Man
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
Men the Angels eyed;
And here they were wild waves,
And there as marsh descried;
Men the Angels eyed,
And liked the picture best
Where they were greenly dressed
In brotherhood of graves.
Man the Angels marked:
He led a host through murk,
On fearful seas embarked;
Man the Angels marked;
To think without a nay,
That he was good as they,
And help him at his work.
Man and Angels, ye
A sluggish fen shall drain,
Shall quell a warring sea.
Man and Angels, ye,
Whom stain of strife befouls,
A light to kindle souls
Bear radiant in the stain.
Scheme | AbaAccb DedDffe GhgGbxh |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101 011011 01111 10101 010101 110101 01011 10101 110111 110101 10101 110101 111111 011111 10101 010111 110101 10101 11111 011101 1100001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 531 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 139 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 06, 2023
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