Analysis of Ten Years Ago
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
"Ten years ago," the world was then
A pleasant and a lovely dream;
Life was a river banked by flowers,
With sunshine glancing o'er the stream;
The path was new, and there was thrown
A sweet veil over pleasure's ray;
But ignorance is happiness,
When young Hope is to show the way;
And fair the scenes that hope would show
When youth was bright "ten years ago."
Ten years are past,— life is no more
The fairy land that once I knew—
Pleasures have proved but falling stars,
And many a sweetest spell untrue:
But may I look on these dear ones,
Feel their soft smile, their rosy kiss;
Or may I turn, Beloved, to thee,
My own home-star of truth and bliss!
While love's sweet lights thus round me glow,
Can I regret "ten years ago?"
Scheme | XAXAXBXBCC XDXDXEXECC |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (25%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11010111 01000101 110101110 11101001 01110111 0111011 11001100 11111101 01011111 11111101 11111111 01011111 10111101 010010101 11111111 11111101 11110111 11111101 11111111 11011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 763 |
Words | 145 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 290 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 69 |
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