Analysis of The Deaf Schoolmaster
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
He cannot hear the skylark sing,
The music of the wild bee’s wing;
The murmur of the plaining bough ;
A gentle whisper fairy low;
The noise of falling waters near—
All these have left his mournful ear.
A sad, sad silence, whose worst power
Is felt in others’ gladdest hour.
But, ah, to what can it not move
Th' unconquerable strength of love !
See how he bends above the page,
For him—the child of his old age.
The ear is deaf, the eye is dim,
Yet anxious and alive for him.
How deep and tender is the debt,
Whose seal on that young heart is set;
Little, perchance, may be the aid,
Not so the fondness which essayed
To help amid this learned coil,
And smooth the youthful student's toil.
Mid all the sorrow and the crime,
Man's destiny from earliest time ;
Mid all that can debase, degrade,
How beautiful this earth is made,
By pure affection, deep and dear,
Affection like that pictured here !
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011 01010111 0101011 01010101 01110101 11111101 011101110 11010110 11111111 111111 11110101 11011111 01110111 11000111 11010101 11111111 10011101 1101011 1101111 01010101 11010001 110011001 11110101 11001111 11010101 01011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 877 |
Words | 165 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 26 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 688 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 169 |
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