Analysis of "Good night"
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
Good night!—what a sudden shadow
Has fallen upon the air,
I look not around the chamber,
I know he is not there.
Sweetness has left the music,
And gladness left the light;
My cheek has lost its colour,
How could he say, Good night!
And why should he take with him
The happiness he brought?
Alas! such fleeting pleasure
Is all too dearly bought:
If thus, my heart stop beating,
My spirits lose their tone,
And a gloom, like night, surround me,
The moment he is gone.
Like the false fruit of the lotos,
Love alters every taste:—
We loathe the life we're leading,
The spot where we are plac'd.
We live upon to-morrow,
Or, we dream the past again;
But what avails that knowledge?
It ever comes in vain.
Scheme | ABCBDEBEFGCHIJKLMNINAOPQ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110101 1100101 11101010 111111 1011010 01101 111111 111111 0111111 010011 0111010 111101 1111110 110111 00111011 010111 1011101 1101001 1101110 011111 1101110 1110101 111110 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 727 |
Words | 156 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 536 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 130 |
About this poem
This is one of Landon's quiet poems fro The New Monthly, 1831
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Written on 1831
Submitted by Madeleine Quinn on December 05, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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