Analysis of Vaucluse
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
Tall rocks begirt the lovely valley round,
Like barriers guarding its sweet loneliness;
Clouds rested on their summits, and their sides
Darken‘d with aged woods, where ivy twined
And green moss grew unconscious of the sun:
Rushing in fury from a gloomy cave,
Black like the dwelling place of Death and Night,
An angry river came; at first it traced
Its course in wrath, and the dark cavern rang
With echoes to its hoarse and sullen roar;
But when it reach’d the peaceful valley, then,
Like woman’s smile soothing wild rage away,
The sunlight fell upon its troubled waves—
It made the waters, like a curbed steed,
Chafed and foamed angrily, but softly flowed,
A bright unbroken mirror, for the kiss
Of the fair children of its fragrant banks,
And close beside uprose the tree whose form
Had once been beauty's refuge—sacred shade!
Which even the lightning dares not violate,
The hero's trophy and the bard's reward—
The faded laurel.—
Vaucluse! thou hast a melancholy charm,
A sweet remembrance of departed time,
When love awoke the lyre from its long sleep,
Unbound the golden wings of poetry,
And in thy groves the graceful Petrarch sought
A shelter where his soul might wander free,
Dwelling on tender thoughts and minstrel dreams,
All that the bard can feel in solitude.
Thy name is in his songs, and it will be
Remembered, when thy woods shall wave no more.
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Metre | 111010101 11001011100 1101110011 11111101 011110101 1001010101 1101011101 1101011111 1101001101 1101110101 1111010101 111101101 011011101 110101011 1011001101 0101010101 1011011101 010110111 111110101 11001011100 0101000101 01010 11101001 0101010101 1101011111 0101011100 001101011 0101111101 1011010101 110111010 1110110111 0101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,368 |
Words | 237 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 32 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,081 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 236 |
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