Modern Love Ii: It Ended, And The Morrow by George Meredith: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Modern Love Ii: It Ended, And The Morrow that begins with:

It ended, and the morrow brought the task.
Her eyes were guilty gates, that let him in... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbacddcbeebbffb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101010101 0101011110 1101110111 1101011101 1101010101 11011101010 01010101010 1011010111 1111010111 0101010101 1101111101 0101011101 0101001101 11010100011 0101000001 11010100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 679
  • Average number of words per stanza: 126
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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