Analysis of Gentleness Pictured
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
A gentle creature was that girl,
Meek, humble, and subdued;
Like some lone flower that has grown up
In woodland solitude.
Its soil has had but little care,
Its growth but little praise;
And down it droops the timid head
It has not strength to raise.
For other brighter blooms are round,
And they attract the eye ;
They seem the sunny favourites
Of summer, earth, and sky.
The human and the woodland flower
Hath yet a dearer part,—
The perfume of the hidden depths,
The sweetness at the heart.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCBC XDXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 01010111 110001 111101111 0110 11111101 111101 01110101 111111 11010111 010101 110101 110101 01000110 110101 00110101 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 479 |
Words | 90 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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