Analysis of The Poet
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
Oh say not that truth does not dwell with the lyre,
That the Minstrel will feign what he never has felt;
Oh say not his love is a fugitive fire,
Thrown o'er the snow mountains, will sparkle, not melt.
It is not the Alpine hills rich with the ray
Of sunset can image the soul of the bard;
The light of the evening around them may play,
But the frost-work beneath is, tho' bright, cold and hard.
’Tis the burning volcano, that ceaselessly glows,
Where the Minstrelmay find his own semblance pourtray'd;
The red fires that gleam on the summit are those
That first on his own inmost spirit have preyed.
Ah, deeply the Minstrel has felt all he sings,
Every passion he paints his own bosom has known;
No note of wild music is swept from the strings,
But first his own feelings have echoed the tone.
Then say not his love is a fugitive fire,
That the heart can be ice while the lip is of flame;
Oh say not that truth does not dwell with the lyre;
The pulse of the heart and the harp are the same.
Scheme | Abcb dede fbfx ghgh ciAi |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11111111101 101011111011 111111010010 110011011011 1110111101 1111001101 01101001111 101101111101 101001011001 101111101 011011101011 1111111011 11001011111 1001011111011 11111011101 11111011001 111111010010 101111101111 11111111101 01101001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 990 |
Words | 191 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 154 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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