Analysis of Well I Remember How You Smiled
Walter Savage Landor 1775 (Warwick) – 1864
Well I remember how you smiled
To see me write your name upon
The soft sea-sand . . . "O! what a child!
You think you're writing upon stone!"
I have since written what no tide
Shall ever wash away, what men
Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide
And find Ianthe's name again.
| Scheme | AXAX BCBC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 11010111 11111101 01111101 11110011 11110111 11010111 111110101 011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 271 |
| Words | 53 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 17, 2023
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