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
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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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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