Analysis of You smiled, you spoke, and I believed
Walter Savage Landor 1775 (Warwick) – 1864
You smiled, you spoke, and I believed,
By every word and smile deceived.
Another man would hope no more;
Nor hope I what I hoped before:
But let not this last wish be vain;
Deceive, deceive me once again!
| Scheme | AABBCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110101 110010101 01011111 11111101 11111111 01011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 207 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 157 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 30, 2023
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