Analysis of The Fête
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
There was a feast that night,
And coloured lamps sent forth their odorous light
Over gold carvings, and the purple fall
Of tapestry; and around each stately hall
Were statues pale, and delicate, and fair,
As all of beauty, save her blush, were there;
And, like light clouds floating around each room,
The censers sent their breathings of perfume;
And scented waters mingled with the breath
Of flowers that died as they rejoiced in death.
The tulip, with its globe of rainbow light;
The red rose, as it languished with delight;
The bride-like hyacinth, drooping as with shame,
And the anemone, whose cheek of flame
Is golden, as it were the flower the sun,
In his noon hour, most loved to look upon.
At first the pillared halls were still and lone,
As if some fairy palace, all unknown
To mortal eye or step:—this was not long—
Wakened the lutes, and rose the sound of song;
And the wide mirrors glittered with the crowd
Of changing shapes: the young, the fair, the proud,
Came thronging in.
| Scheme | AABBCCDDEEAAFFGHIIJJKKL |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110111 01011111001 1011000101 11000011101 011010001 1111010101 0111100111 01111101 0101010101 11011110101 010111111 0111110101 0111010111 00101111 11011001001 01110111101 1101010101 1111010101 1101111111 101010111 0011010101 1101010101 110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 1,019 |
| Words | 199 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 23 |
| Lines Amount | 23 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 778 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 176 |
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A Feast is prepared, but to what end?
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