Analysis of What is Success?
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
All things are symbols; and we find
In morning's lovely prime,
The actual history of the mind
In its own early time:
So, to the youthful poet's gaze,
A thousand colours rise,—
The beautiful which soon decays.
The buoyant which soon dies.
So does not die their influence,
The spirit owns the spell;
Memory to him is music—hence
The magic of his shell.
He sings of general hopes and fears—
A universal tone;
All weep with him, for in his tears
They recognise their own.
Yet many a one, whose lute hangs now
High on the laurel tree.
Feels that the cypress' dark bough
A fitter meed would be :
And still with weariness and wo
The fatal gift is won;
Many a radiant head lies low,
Ere half its race be run.
Scheme | ABABCDCD XEXEXFXF GHGHIJIJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110011 010101 0100100101 011101 11010101 01011 01001101 010111 11111100 010101 100111101 010111 111100101 00101 11111011 1111 110011111 110101 1101011 010111 01110001 010111 100100111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 748 |
Words | 133 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 181 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted by Madeleine Quinn on December 02, 2016
Modified by Madeleine Quinn on March 04, 2020
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