Analysis of Age and Youth
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
"I tell thee," said the old man, "what is life.
A gulf of troubled waters — where the soul,
Like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves,
Of pain and pleasure, by the wavering breath
Of passions. They are winds that drive it on,
But only to destruction and despair.
Methinks that we have known some former state
More glorious than our present ; and the heart
Is haunted by dim memories — shadows left
By past felicity. Hence do we pine
For vain aspirings — hopes that fill the eyes
With bitter tears for their own vanity.
Are we then fallen from some lovely star,
Whose consciousness is as an unknown curse?"
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Metre | 1111011111 0111010101 1011110101 11010101001 1101111111 1101010001 111111101 110011010001 1101110011 1101001111 11111101 1101111100 1111011101 1100111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 613 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 472 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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