Analysis of Fountain’s Abbey - 'Never more, when the day is o'er
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
Never more, when the day is o'er,
Will the lonely vespers sound;
No bells are ringing—no monks are singing,
When the moonlight falls around.
A few pale flowers, which in other hours
May have cheered the dreary mood;
When the votary turned to the world he had spurned,
And repined at the solitude.
Still do they blow 'mid the ruins below,
For fallen are fane and shrine,
And the moss has grown o'er the sculptured stone
Of an altar no more divine.
Still on the walls where the sunshine falls,
The ancient fruit-tree grows;
And o'er tablet and tomb, extends the bloom
Of many a wilding rose.
Fair though they be, yet they seemed to me
To mock the wreck below;
For mighty the tower, where the fragile flower
May now as in triumph blow.
Oh, foolish the thought, that my fancy brought;
More true and more wise to say,
That still thus doth spring, some gentle thing,
With its beauty to cheer decay.
“Many a garden flower grows wild:” amid the ruins of the old monasteries, many a weary hour may their cultivation once have beguiled. At Fountain’s Abbey there is still preserved a species of pear peculiar to the place.
| Scheme | ABCB XDXD EFXF XGXG XEAE XHCH X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101101110 101011 1111011110 101101 01110101010 1110101 1011101111 011010 1111101001 1101101 00111100101 11101101 11011011 010111 01010010101 1100101 111111111 110101 110010101010 1110101 1100111101 1101111 111111101 11101101 100101011010101011001001010110101101110101110101011010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 1,098 |
| Words | 203 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 25 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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