Analysis of On Himself
Walter Savage Landor 1775 (Warwick) – 1864
I STROVE with none, for none was worth my strife;
Nature I lov’d, and next to Nature, Art;
I warm’d both hands before the fire of life;
It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111111111 1011011101 11110101011 1101110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 180 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 127 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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