Analysis of Very True, the Linnets Sing
Walter Savage Landor 1775 (Warwick) – 1864
Very true, the linnets sing
Sweetest in the leaves of spring:
You have found in all these leaves
That which changes and deceives,
And, to pine by sun or star,
Left them, false ones as they are.
But there be who walk beside
Autumn's, till they all have died,
And who lend a patient ear
To low notes from branches sere.
| Scheme | AABBCCDDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (20%) |
| Metre | 101011 1000111 1110111 111001 0111111 1111111 1111101 1011111 0110101 1111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 325 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 246 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 61 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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