Analysis of On Music
Walter Savage Landor 1775 (Warwick) – 1864
MANY love music but for music’s sake;
Many because her touches can awake
Thoughts that repose within the breast half dead,
And rise to follow where she loves to lead.
What various feelings come from days gone by!
What tears from far-off sources dim the eye!
Few, when light fingers with sweet voices play,
And melodies swell, pause, and melt away,
Mind how at every touch, at every tone,
A spark of life hath glisten’d and hath gone.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEF |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 1011011101 1001010101 1101010111 0111011111 11001011111 1111110101 1111011101 0100110101 111100111001 011111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 437 |
Words | 80 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 340 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 78 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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