Analysis of The Woodland Brook
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
Thou art flowing, thou art flowing,
Oh, small and silvery brook;
The rushes by thee growing,
And with a patient look
The pale narcissus o’er thee bends
Like one who asks in vain for friends.
I bring not back my childhood,
Sweet comrade of its hours;
The music of the wild wood,
The colour of the flowers;
They do not bring again the dream
That haunted me beside thy stream.
When black-lettered old romances
Made a world for me alone;
Oh, days of lovely fancies,
Are ye for ever flown?
Ye are fled, sweet, vague, and vain,
So I cannot dream again.
I have left a feverish pillow
For thy soothing song;
Alas, each fairy billow
An image bears along,
Look where I will, I only see
One face too much beloved by me.
In vain my heart remembers
What pleasure used to be,
My past thoughts are but embers
Consumed by love for thee.
I wish to love thee less—and feel
A deeper fondness o’er me steal.
Scheme | ABABCC DEDEFF XGXGXX HIHIJJ EJEJKK |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (33%) |
Metre | 11101110 1101001 0101110 010101 01010111 11110111 111111 111110 0101011 011010 11110101 11010111 11101010 1011101 1111010 111101 1111101 1110101 111010010 11101 0111010 110101 11111101 11110111 0111010 110111 1111110 011111 11111101 01010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 904 |
Words | 168 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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