Analysis of Song - Listen to the tale
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
Listen to the tale
That on the night gale
Blends with the rose's sigh;
The moon shines o'er thy bower,
Yon star has marked the hour
When no step and no sound are nigh.
Like the nightbird's lay
Which dares not by day
Tell of its hope and fear,
But awakens the flower
On the still moonlight hour,
When not another song is near.
Then ope those blue eyes,
The smile which there lies
Glancing of love, fond love;
So like yon star's sweet ray,
Whose brightness clears away
Each shadow that darkens above.
The pearls of the sea
Were worthless to me,
Earth's gems in vain were mine;
They would not give the bliss
Of a moment like this
When I breathe that sweet sigh of thine.
Scheme | AABCCB DDECCE FFGDDG HHIJJI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101 11011 110101 01110110 1111010 11101111 1011 11111 111101 1010010 101110 11010111 11111 01111 101111 111111 110101 111101 01101 01011 110101 111101 101011 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 711 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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