Analysis of Experience Too Late
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
It is the past that maketh my despair;
The dark, the sad, the irrevocable past.
Alas ! why should our lot in life be made,
Before we know that life ? Experience comes,
But comes too late. If I could now recall
All that I now regret, how different
Would be my choice ! at best a choice of ill;
But better than my miserable past.
Loathed, yet despised, why must I think of it ?
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Metre | 110111101 01010010001 01111010111 01111101001 111111111 1111011100 1111110111 1101110001 1101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 375 |
Words | 72 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 9 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 284 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 76 |
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