Analysis of Much Change in a Little Time
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
And she too — that beloved child, was gone —
Life's last and loveliest link. There was her place
Vacant beside the hearth — he almost dreamed
He saw her still ; so present was her thought.
Then some slight thing reminded him how far
The distance was that parted her and him.
Fear dwells around the absent — and our love
For such grows all too anxious, too much filled
With vain regrets, and fond inquietudes :
We know not Love till those we love depart.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHBI |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 011101111 110111101 100101111 1101110101 1111010111 0101110001 11010100101 1111110111 1101011 1111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 461 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 353 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 87 |
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