Analysis of Love's Timidity
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
I do not ask to offer thee
A timid love like mine ;
I lay it, as the rose is laid,
On some immortal shrine.
I have no hope in loving thee,
I only ask to love ;
I brood upon my silent heart,
As on its nest the dove.
But little have I been beloved,
Sad, silent, and alone ;
And yet I feel, in loving thee,
The wide world is mine own.
Thine is the name I breathe to Heaven.
Thy face is on my sleep ;
I only ask that love like this
May pray for thee and weep.
Scheme | ABXB ACXC XDAD XEXE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11111101 010111 11110111 110101 11110101 110111 11011101 111101 11011101 110001 01110101 011111 110111110 111111 11011111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 455 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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