Analysis of Of Clementina
Walter Savage Landor 1775 (Warwick) – 1864
In Clementina’s artless mien
Lucilla asks me what I see,
And are the roses of sixteen
Enough for me?
Lucilla asks, if that be all,
Have I not cull’d as sweet before:
Ah yes, Lucilla! and their fall
I still deplore.
I now behold another scene,
Where Pleasure beams with Heaven’s own light,
More pure, more constant, more serene,
And not less bright.
Faith, on whose breast the Loves repose,
Whose chain of flowers no force can sever,
And Modesty who, when she goes,
Is gone for ever.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD AEAE FGFG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 0111 111111 01010101 0111 111111 11111101 111011 1101 11010101 110111011 11110101 0111 11110101 1111011110 01001111 11110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 481 |
Words | 90 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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