Analysis of To Ianthe
Walter Savage Landor 1775 (Warwick) – 1864
YOU smil’d, you spoke, and I believ’d,
By every word and smile deceiv’d.
Another man would hope no more;
Nor hope I what I hop’d before:
But let not this last wish be vain;
Deceive, deceive me once again!
Scheme | AABBCD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011 11001011 01011111 11111101 11111111 01011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 216 |
Words | 41 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 6 |
Lines Amount | 6 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 153 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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