Analysis of Iole
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
'Tis a vain folly, and I know it such ;
Yet who has not some weakness which the heart
Has made an idol ? 'Tis thus with the name
That to my lute is as the vizard is,
Which hides the masquer's face. I have no hope.
Nay, scarce the wish, for fame ; but yet it soothes,
And gives me somewhat of a social feeling,
To think that some, albeit they know me not,
May share the grief that taught me poetry.
Beloved mine ! Iole has a sound
Breathing of other days, and linked with thee :
'Tis not the first time I have borne that name.
When but a boy, (for I was fair and pale,
And had some likeness to an antique gem,),
In some young frolic, garb'd as a Greek girl,
Named from that cameo with Iole's name,
I taught my lute its earliest song of love,
Pouring my feelings under that disguise,
lanthe, thou wast spirit of that song. —
It was my first disguise, it is my last, —
And both alike are thine.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011001111 1111110101 1111011101 111111011 110111111 1101111111 01111101010 11110101111 1101111100 011010101 1011010111 1101111111 1101111101 0111011011 0111011011 11110111 11111100111 1011010101 11110111 1111011111 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 959 |
Words | 193 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 669 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 196 |
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