Analysis of Presentiment
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
I feel the shadow on my brow,
The sickness at my heart;
Alas! I look on those I love,
And am so sad to part.
If I could leave my love behind,
Or watch from yonder sky
With holy and enduring care,
I were not loath to die.
But death is terrible to Love:
And yet a love like mine
Trusts in the heaven from whence it came,
And feels it is divine.
Scheme | XABA XCXC BDXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1101111 010111 01111111 011111 11111101 111101 11000101 101111 11110011 010111 100101111 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 366 |
Words | 73 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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