Analysis of Song - I wrote my name upon the sand;
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
I wrote my name upon the sand;
I thought I wrote it on thine heart.
I had no touch of fear, that words,
Such words, so graven, could depart.
The sands, thy heart, alike have lost
The name I trusted to their care;
And passing waves, and worldly thoughts,
Effaced what once was written there.
Woe, for the false sands! and worse woe,
That thou art falsest of the twain!
I, yet, may write upon the sands,
But never on thine heart, again.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 11110101 11111111 11111111 11110101 01110111 01110111 01010101 1111101 11011011 1111101 11110101 11011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 462 |
Words | 83 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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