Analysis of The Sultana's Remonstrance
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
IT suits thee well to weep,
As thou lookest on the fair land,
Whose sceptre thou hast held
With less than woman's hand.
On yon bright city gaze,
With its white and marble halls,
The glory of its lofty towers,
The strength of its proud walls.
And look to yonder palace,
With its garden of the rose,
With its groves and silver fountains,
Fit for a king's repose.
There is weeping in that city,
And a cry of woe and shame,
There's a whisper of dishonour,
And that whisper is thy name.
And the stranger's feast is spread,
But it is no feast of thine;
In thine own halls accursed lips
Drain the forbidden wine.
And aged men are in the streets,
Who mourn their length of days,
And young knights stand with folded arms,
And eyes they dare not raise.
There is not one whose blood was not
As the waves of ocean free,--
Their fathers died for thy fathers,
They would have died for thee.
Weep not, 'tis mine to weep,
That ever thou wert born,
Alas, that all a mother's love
Is lost in a queen's scorn!
Yet weep, thou less than woman, weep,
Those tears become thine eye,--
It suits thee well to weep the land
For which thou daredst not die.*
| Scheme | ABXB CDED XFXF GHXH XIXI XCXC XGEG AJXJ AKBK |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 111111 1111011 110111 111101 111101 1110101 010111010 011111 0111010 1110101 11101010 110101 11100110 0011101 101011 0110111 0010111 1111111 011111 101001 0111001 111111 01111101 011111 11111111 1011101 11011110 111111 111111 110111 01110101 110011 11111101 110111 11111101 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 1,103 |
| Words | 221 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 36 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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