Analysis of Cottage Courtship
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
Now, out upon this smiling,
No smile shall meet his sight;
And a word of gay reviling
Is all he'll hear to-night,
For he'll hold my smiles too lightly,
If he always sees me smile;
He'll think they shine more brightly
When I have frowned awhile.
'Tis not kindness keeps a lover,
He must feel the chain he wears;
All the sweet enchantment's over,
When he has no anxious cares.
The heart would seem too common,
If he thought that heart his own;
Ah! the empire of a woman
Is still in the unknown.
Let change without a reason,
Make him never feel secure;
For it is an April season
That a lover must endure.
They are all of them so faithless,
Their torment is your gain;
Would you keep your own heart scathless,
Be the one to give the pain.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH GIGIFJFJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110 111111 001111 111111 11111110 111111 1111110 111101 11101010 1110111 101110 1111101 0111110 1111111 101001010 110001 1101010 1110101 11111010 1010101 1111111 11111 1111111 1011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 769 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 189 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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