Analysis of Life's Mask
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
Which was the true philosopher ?—the sage
Who to the sorrows and the crimes of life
Gave tears —or he who laughed at all he saw?
Such mockery is bitter, and yet just:
And Heaven well knows the cause there is to weep.
Methinks that life is what the actor is —
Outside there is the quaint and gibing mask ;
Beneath, the pale and careworn countenance.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010001 1101000111 1111111111 1100110011 01011011111 111110101 111101011 010101100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 347 |
Words | 66 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 271 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 67 |
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