Analysis of The Wrongs of Love
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
Alas, how bitter are the wrongs of love
Life has no other sorrow so acute :
For love is made of every fine emotion,
Of generous impulses, and noble thoughts ;
It looketh to the stars, and dreams of Heaven ;
It nestles 'mid the flowers, and sweetens earth.
Love is aspiring, yet is humble, too:
It doth exalt another o'er itself,
With sweet heart-homage, which delights to raise
That which it worships ; yet is fain to win
The idol to its lone and lowly home
Of deep affection. Tis an utter wreck
When such hopes perish. From that moment, life
Has in its depths a well of bitterness,
For which there is no healing.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111010111 1111010101 111111001010 11001000101 1110101110 11010100101 1101011101 11010101001 1111010111 1111011111 0101110101 1101011101 1111011101 1011011100 1111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 613 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 475 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 116 |
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