This is an analysis of Appreciation by George Meredith.
Earth was not Earth before her sons appeared,
Nor Beauty Beauty ere young Love was born:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbXaXbacdecde
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111010101 1101011111 1111110111 11010101110 0110110001 0101010010 1011000101 0111111111 1101111111 1111010111 1101010101 01100111101 1111011101 1101011011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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