Analysis of Small Miseries
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
Life's smallest miseries are, perhaps, its worst :
Great sufferings have great strength : there is a pride
In the bold energy that braves the worst,
And bears proud in the bearing ; but the heart
Consumes with those small sorrows, and small shames,
Which crave, yet cannot ask for sympathy.
They blush that they exist, and yet how keen
The pang that they inflict !
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Metre | 11010010111 11001111101 0011001101 0110010101 0111110011 1111011100 1111010111 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 364 |
Words | 62 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 286 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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