Analysis of Plays
Walter Savage Landor 1775 (Warwick) – 1864
ALAS, how soon the hours are over
Counted us out to play the lover!
And how much narrower is the stage
Allotted us to play the sage!
But when we play the fool, how wide
The theatre expands! beside,
How long the audience sits before us!
How many prompters! what a chorus!
Scheme | AABBCCDD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111010110 101111010 011100101 01011101 11110111 01000101 1101001011 11011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 272 |
Words | 54 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 210 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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