Analysis of The Poet's Lot
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
The poet's lovely faith creates
The beauty he believes ;
The light which on his footsteps waits,
He from himself receives.
His lot may be a weary lot ;
His thrall a heavy thrall ;
And cares and griefs the crowd know not,
His heart may know them all :
But still he hath a mighty dower,
The loveliness that throws
Over the common thought and hour
The beauty of the rose.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD XEXE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 01010101 010101 0111111 110101 11110101 110101 01010111 111111 11110101 0111 100101010 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 368 |
Words | 68 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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