Analysis of Alteration
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
My heart hath turned aside
From its early dreams ;
To me their course has been
Like mountain streams.
Bright and pure they left
Their place of birth ;
Soon on every wave
Came taints of earth.
Weeds grew upon the banks,
And, as the waters swept,
A bad or useless part
Of all they kept,
Till it reached the plain below,
An altered thing
Bearing gloomy trace, —
Of its wandering.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC XDXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111101 11101 111111 1101 10111 1111 111001 1111 110101 010101 011101 1111 1110101 1101 10101 11100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 378 |
Words | 70 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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