Analysis of One Lovely Name
Walter Savage Landor 1775 (Warwick) – 1864
One lovely name adorns my song,
And, dwelling in the heart,
Forever falters at the tongue,
And trembles to depart.
| Scheme | ABCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Ballad stanza Quatrain Simple 4-line |
| Metre | 11010111 010001 01010101 01101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 122 |
| Words | 22 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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