Analysis of Music of Laughter
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
She had that charming laugh which, like a song,
The song of a spring-bird, wakes suddenly
When we least look for it. It lingered long
Upon the ear, one of the sweet things we
Treasure unconsciously. As steals along
A stream in sunshine, stole its melody,
As musical as it was light and wild,
The buoyant spirit of some fairy child;
Yet mingled with soft sighs, that might express
The depth and truth of earnest tenderness.
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 1111011101 0110111100 1111111101 0101110111 101001101 010111100 1100111101 0101011101 1101111101 0101110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 434 |
Words | 76 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 334 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 76 |
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