Analysis of Parting
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
We do not know how much we love,
Until we come to leave ;
An aged tree, a common flower,
Are things o'er which we grieve.
There is a pleasure in the pain
That brings us back the past again.
We linger while we turn away,
We cling while we depart;
And memories, unmark'd till then,
Come crowding on the heart.
Let what will lure our onward way,
Farewell's a bitter word to say.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111 011111 11101010 1110111 11010001 11110101 11011101 111101 01000111 110101 111110101 1010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 380 |
Words | 73 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 143 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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