Analysis of Revenge
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
Ay, gaze upon her rose-wreathed hair,
And gaze upon her smile;
Seem as you drank the very air
Her breath perfumed the while:
And wake for her the gifted line,
That wild and witching lay,
And swear your heart is as a shrine,
That only owns her sway.
'Tis well: I am revenged at last,—
Mark you that scornful cheek,—
The eye averted as you pass'd,
Spoke more than words could speak.
Ay, now by all the bitter tears
That I have shed for thee,—
The racking doubts, the burning fears,—
Avenged they well may be—
By the nights pass'd in sleepless care,
The days of endless woe;
All that you taught my heart to bear,
All that yourself will know.
I would not wish to see you laid
Within an early tomb;
I should forget how you betray'd,
And only weep your doom:
But this is fitting punishment,
To live and love in vain,—
Oh my wrung heart, be thou content,
And feed upon his pain.
Go thou and watch her lightest sigh,—
Thine own it will not be;
And bask beneath her sunny eye,—
It will not turn on thee.
'Tis well: the rack, the chain, the wheel,
Far better hadst thou proved;
Ev'n I could almost pity feel,
For thou art nor beloved.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF XGXG AHAH IJIJ XKXK LGLG MXMX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (89%) |
Metre | 11010111 010101 11110101 010101 01100101 110101 01111101 110101 1111111 111101 01010111 111111 11110101 111111 01010101 011111 10110101 011101 11111111 110111 11111111 011101 11011101 010111 11110100 110101 11111110 010111 11010101 111111 01010101 111111 11010101 110111 11111101 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,226 |
Words | 225 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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