Analysis of Hope
Charlotte Smith 1749 (London) – 1806 (Tilford, Surrey)
Parody on Lord Strangford's 'Just like Love.'
JUST like Hope is yonder bow,
That from the center bends so low,
Where bright prismatic colours shew
How gems of heavenly radiance glow,
Just like Hope !
Yet if, to the illusion new,
The pilgrim should the arch pursue,
Farther and farther from his view,
It flies; then melts in chilling dew,
Just like Hope !
Ye fade, ethereal hues ! for ever,
While, cold Reason, thy endeavour
Sooths not that sad heart, which never
Glows with Hope.
| Scheme | xxabaCbbbbC dddc |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 100111111 1111101 11010111 1101011 1111001001 111 11100101 01010101 10010111 11110101 111 1101001110 11101010 11111110 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 487 |
| Words | 86 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 11, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 186 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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