Analysis of On Living Too Long
Walter Savage Landor 1775 (Warwick) – 1864
IS it not better at an early hour
In its calm cell to rest the weary head,
While birds are singing and while blooms the bower,
Than sit the fire out and go starv’d to bed?
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11110111010 0111110101 11110011010 11010101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 178 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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