Analysis of Love's Followers
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
There was an evil in Pandora's box
Beyond all other ones, yet it came forth
In guise so lovely, that men crowded round
And sought it as the dearest of all treasure.
Then were they stung with madness and despair:
High minds were bowed in abject misery.
The hero trampled on his laurell'd crown,
While genius broke the lute it waked no more.
Young maidens, with pale cheeks, and faded eyes,
Wept till they died. Then there were broken hearts —
Insanity and Jealousy, that feeds
Unto satiety, yet loathes its food ;
Suicide digging its own grave ; and Hate,
Unquenchable and deadly ; and Remorse —
The vulture feeding on its own life-blood.
The evil's name was Love — these curses seem
His followers for ever.
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 712 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 553 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 128 |
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