Analysis of The Peri
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
It was a bower of roses, linked by wreaths
Of the golden jasmine, loved by the bee
Whose summer home it is the flower that breathes
Upon the Indian girl's dark hair, when she
Braids her long tresses for festivity.
Beside these sweet and sunny chains, unclose
Soft leaves, some white as foam flakes of the sea,
Some veined with pink ; but more than all there glows
The hue-like maiden's cheek, when love calls forth the rose —
Above the blossoms hung an airy form,
Upborne by pinions of an azure dye,
Playing around like light ; her check is warm
With rich carnation, and that starry eye
Has the bright colour of the noontide sky.
Her look is passionless : no deeper hue
Varies that blush, and as she floats, a sigh
Of odours, and a fresher fall of dew,
Welcome the waving music from those wings of blue.
Scheme | ABCBBABDDEFEFFGFGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010110111 1010101101 11011101011 01010011111 1011010100 011101011 1111111101 1111111111 01111111101 0101011101 11111101 1001110111 1101001101 10111011 01111101 1011011101 110010111 100101011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 804 |
Words | 148 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 629 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 151 |
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Submitted on November 10, 2015
Modified on March 05, 2023
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