Analysis of Airey Force
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
Aye, underneath yon shadowy side,
I could be fain to fix my home;
Where dashes down the torrent’s pride,
In sparkling wave, and silver foam.
No other sound is waking there,
But that perpetual voice, which seems
Like spirit music on the air,
An echo from the world of dreams.
They were more wise in other days;
Then turn’d the hermit to his cell,
And left a world where all betrays,
Apart with his own thoughts to dwell.
Content to curb the heart, to be
Indifferent, quiet, mournful, cold
With hopes turn’d into memory,
With feelings that had lost their hold.
Far better this, than such vain life
As is in crowded cities known;
Where care, repining, grief, and strife,
Make every passing hour their own.
There, by yon torrent’s rushing wave,
I’d pass what yet of time remain'd;
And feel the quiet of the grave
Long ere that grave itself were gain’d.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KXKA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 10111001 11111111 11010101 01010101 11011101 110100111 11010101 11010111 10110101 11010111 01011101 01111111 10110111 01010101 11101100 11011111 11011111 11010101 111101 1100101011 11110101 11111101 01010101 11110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 903 |
Words | 153 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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