Analysis of A First Disappointment
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
The deep, the long, the dreaming hours,
That I have past with thee,
When thou hadst not a single thought
Of how thou wert with me.
I heard thy voice, I spoke again,
I gazed upon thy face;
And never scene of actual life
Could bear a deeper trace
Than all that fancy conjured up,
And made thee look and say;
Till I have loathed reality,
That chased such dream away.
Alas ! this is vain, fond, and false;
Thy heart is not for me;
And, knowing this, how can I waste
My very soul on thee?
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCAC XAXA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 010101010 111111 11110101 111111 11111101 110111 010111001 110101 11110101 011101 111110 111101 01111101 111111 01011111 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 500 |
Words | 96 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted by Madeleine Quinn on July 24, 2016
Modified by Madeleine Quinn on March 02, 2020
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