Analysis of Lines on the Mausoleum of the Princess Charlotte, at Claremont
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
Alas! how many storm-clouds hang
O'er every sunny day below!
How many flowers die as they bloom!
How many more before they blow!
But fall the blight, or lour the blast,
O'er every other pleasure here
If they would leave untouched that one
Of all earth's joys most pure and dear!
Young Love! how well thy smile can cheer
All other ills that wring the heart?
All other sorrows may we bear,
But those in which thyself hast part.
And is not this thy worst, of griefs—
Thine uttermost despair—to see
The grave close over the fond heart
Just wakened into life by thee?
To watch the blight steal o'er the rose,
Yews spring where myrtles wont to be—
And for the bridal wreath to wear
One gathered from the cypress-tree?
Look on yon grove, where a white fane
Grows whiter as the moonbeams fall;
There is a bust upon its shrine,
Wearing a white rose coronal:
It is the monument where Hope
And youthful Love sleep side by side,
Raised by the mourner to the name
Of her—his lost, but worshipp'd Bride.
Scheme | XAXA XXXB BCDC EECF EFDF XXXA XGXG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (71%) |
Metre | 01110111 1010010101 110101111 11010111 11011101 1010010101 11110111 11111101 11111111 11011101 11010111 1101111 01111111 110111 01110011 1101111 110111001 11110111 01010111 11010101 11111011 1101011 11010111 100111 11010011 01011111 11010101 10111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,037 |
Words | 183 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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