Analysis of Love's Ending
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
And this, then, is love's ending. It is like
The history of some fair southern clime :
Hot fires are in the bosom of the earth,
And the warmed soil puts forth its thousand flowers,
Its fruits of gold — summer's regality ;
And sleep and odours float upon the air,
Making it heavy with its own delight.
At length the subterranean element
Bursts from its secret solitude, and lays
All waste before it. The red lava stream
Sweeps like a pestilence ; and that which was
A garden for some fairy tale's young queen
Is one wild desert, lost in burning sand.
Thus is it with the heart. Love lights it up
With one rich flush of beauty. Mark the end :
Hopes, that have quarrelled even with themselves,
And joys that make a bitter memory;
While the heart, scorched and withered, and o'erwhelmed
By passion's earthquake, loathes the name of love.
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Metre | 0111110111 0100111101 11010010101 00111111010 1111101 010110101 1011011101 11000100100 111101001 1101101101 1101000111 0101110111 1111010101 1111011111 1111110101 111110101 0111010100 101101001 11110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 817 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 651 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 153 |
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