This is an analysis of Modern Love Xlix: He Found Her by George Meredith.

He found her by the ocean's moaning verge,
Nor any wicked change in her discerned;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbabccbXddXebbe
  • Stanza lengths: 16,
  • Metre: 1101010101 1101010001 1101011101 1101000101 1101110111 0111111111 1111010111 1101011101 1111101111 11010101001 1111110111 0101110111 0101000101 11111100001 1111010111 111111111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

her, and, she