Analysis of Ianthe
Walter Savage Landor 1775 (Warwick) – 1864
From you, Ianthe, little troubles pass
Like little ripples down a sunny river;
Your pleasures spring like daisies in the grass,
Cut down, and up again as blithe as ever.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1101010101 11010101010 1101110001 11010111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 174 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 08, 2023
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