Analysis of The Poor
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
Few, save the poor, feel for the poor:
The rich know not how hard
It is to be of needful food
And needful rest debarred.
Their paths are paths of plenteousness,
They sleep on silk and down;
And never think how heavily
The weary head lies down.
They know not of the scanty meal,
With small pale faces round;
No fire upon the cold, damp hearth
When snow is on the ground.
They never by the window lean,
And see the gay pass by;
Then take their weary task again,
But with a sadder eye.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC XDXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11011101 011111 11111101 01011 111111 111101 01011100 010111 11110101 111101 110010111 111101 11010101 010111 11110101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 487 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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