This is an analysis of Modern Love Xvi: In Our Old Shipwrecked Days by George Meredith.
In our old shipwrecked days there was an hour,
When in the firelight steadily aglow,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbacddcXeeXfccf
- Stanza lengths: 16,
- Metre: 011100111110 10010010001 11011001101 010101111010 1111011111 1100110100 0101011101 0101010101 1111110101 01100111101 11011110101 1101110010 11010110011 0111011111 1011010101 1111011111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 16
