Analysis of Speke Hall
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
O, fair old house—how Time doth honour thee,
Giving thee what to-day may never gain,
Of long respect and ancient poesy ;
The yew-trees at thy doors are black with years,
And filled with memories of those warlike days,
When from each bough was lopped a gallant bow ;
For then the yew was what the oak is now,
And what our bowmen were, our sailors are.
How green the ivy grows upon the walls,
Ages have lent their strength to those frail boughs,
A venerable wreath upon the past,
Which here is paramount ;—the past, which is
Imagination’s own gigantic realm.
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Metre | 111111111 1011111101 11010101 0111111111 0111001111 1111110101 1101110111 011010010101 1101010101 1011111111 0100010101 111100111 001010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 561 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 434 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 102 |
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