Analysis of Love's Happiness
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
There are a thousand fanciful things
Link'd round the young heart's imaginings.
In its first love-dream, a leaf or a flower,
Is gifted then with a spell and a power ;
A shade is an omen, a dream is a sign,
From which the maiden can well divine
Passion's whole history. Those only can tell
Who have loved as young hearts can love so well,
How the pulses will beat, and the cheek will be dyed,
When they have some love augury tried.
Oh ! it is not for those whose feelings are cold,
Wither'd by care, or blunted by gold ;
Whose brows have darken'd with many years,
To feel again youth's hopes and fears —
What they now might blush to confess,
Yet what made their spring-day's happiness !
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFGGHI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101001 110111 01111011010 11011010010 01111001101 110101101 1110011011 1111111111 101011001111 1111111 11111111011 101111011 111101101 11011101 11111101 111111100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 687 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 527 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 131 |
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