Analysis of What News
Walter Savage Landor 1775 (Warwick) – 1864
Here, ever since you went abroad,
If there be change, no change I see,
I only walk our wonted road,
The road is only walkt by me.
Yes; I forgot; a change there is;
Was it of that you bade me tell?
I catch at times, at times I miss
The sight, the tone, I know so well.
Only two months since you stood here!
Two shortest months! then tell me why
Voices are harsher than they were,
And tears are longer ere they dry.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11011101 11111111 11011011 01110111 11010111 11111111 11111111 01011111 10111111 11011111 10110110 01110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 410 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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