Analysis of Secrets
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
LIFE has dark secrets; and the hearts are few
That treasure not some sorrow from the world--
A sorrow silent, gloomy, and unknown,
Yet colouring the future from the past.
We see the eye subdued, the practised smile,
The word well weighed before it pass the lip,
And know not of the misery within:
Yet there it works incessantly, and fears
The time to come; for time is terrible,
Avenging, and betraying.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJ |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 1111000111 1101110101 0101010001 11010101 110101011 0111011101 0111010001 1111010001 0111111100 0100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 412 |
Words | 74 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 316 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 72 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 15, 2023
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