Analysis of The Visionary and the True
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
Ah ! waking dreams, that mock the day,
Have other ends than those
That come beneath the moonlight ray.
And charm the eyes they close.
The vision, colouring the night,
'Mid bloom and brightness wakes,.
Banished by morning's cheerful light,
Which brightens what it breaks.
But dreams, which fill the waking eye
With deeper spells than sleep,
When hours unnumbered pass us by ;
From such we wake and weep.
We wake, but not to sleep again,
The heart has lost its youth ;
The morning light that wakes us then,
Cold, calm, and stern, is truth.
Scheme | AXAX BCBC DEDE FGFG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 11011101 110111 1101011 010111 010101 110101 10110101 110111 11110101 110111 1101111 111101 11111101 011111 01011111 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 537 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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