Analysis of Dirge
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
Lay her in the gentle earth,
Where the summer maketh mirth;
Where young violets have birth;
Where the lily bendeth.
Lay her there, the lovely one!
With the rose, her funeral stone;
And for tears, such showers alone
As the rain of April lendeth.
From the midnight’s quiet hour
Will come dews of holy power,
O’er the sweetest human flower
That was ever loved.
But she was too fair and dear
For our troubled pathway here;
Heaven, that was her natural sphere,
Has its own removed.
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Metre | 1000101 101011 1110011 10101 1010101 10101001 01111001 1011101 1011010 11111010 10101010 11101 1111101 1101011 101101001 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 509 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 187 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted by Madeleine Quinn on March 03, 2020
Modified by Madeleine Quinn on March 03, 2020
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