Analysis of Amelioration and the Future, Man's Noble Tasks
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
Fall, fall, ye mighty temples to the ground:
Not in your sculptured rise
Is the real exercise
Of human nature's brightest power found.
'Tis in the lofty hope, the daily toil,
'Tis in the gifted line,
In each far thought divine,
That brings down Heaven to light our common soil.
'Tis in the great, the lovely, and the true;
'Tis in the generous thought,
Of all that man has wrought,
Of all that yet remains for man to do.
Scheme | ABBA CDDC EFFE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1111010101 101101 10110 1101010101 1001010101 100101 011101 111101110101 1001010001 1001001 111111 1111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 409 |
Words | 79 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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