Analysis of A Comparison
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
A pretty, rainbow sort of life enough ;
Filled up with vanities and gay caprice :
Such life is like the garden at Versailles,
Where all is artificial ; and the stream
Is held in marble basins, or sent up
Amid the fretted air, in waterfalls ;
Fantastic, sparkling ; and the element,
The mighty element, a moment's toy ;
And, like all toys, ephemeral.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010111101 1111000101 1111010101 111010001 1101010111 010101010 0101000100 0101000101 01110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 357 |
Words | 67 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 9 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 268 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 65 |
About this poem
This poem is one of the chapter headings in Ethel Churchill, 1837
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Submitted by Madeleine Quinn on June 24, 2016
Modified by Madeleine Quinn on March 11, 2024
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