Analysis of The Valley of Rocks - Near Linton, Devonshire
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
This valley is bounded by huge naked rocks, piled one upon the other, and resembling extensive ruins : vast fragments overspread the ground, and exhibit on every side awful vestiges of convulsion and desolation.
Summer, thou hast lost thy power;
Nor thy sunshine, nor thy shower,
Can, from out the stubborn earth.
Call the beautiful to birth!
Never springs the green grass here,
Filled with insects, and with flowers,
Musical and fragrant life,
Making glad the passing hours;
Groweth not one ancient tree
Here; the eye can only see
Broken mass of cold gray stone;
Never yet was place so lone!
Yet the heart hath many a mood
That would seek such solitude,
When the summer earth and sky
Mock those who but pine to die.
Wherefore should the flowers be bright,
When they yield us no delight?
What avails the gladsome spring!
Misery is a selfish thing;
And the wretched one would fain
That all nature shared his pain.
Then, the piled and riven rock,
Of earth's agony the sign,
And the lone and barren place,
Seem like sorrow's fitting shrine.
Gloomy vale! if thou couldst be
Haunt for human misery,
Half our life were spent with thee.
Scheme | X AABBXCXCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJXKXKDDD |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (33%) |
Metre | 11011011101110101000100010101101010010110011010010100010 10111110 1111110 1110101 1010011 1010111 1110110 1000101 10101010 111101 1011101 1011111 1011111 10111001 111110 1010101 1111111 1101011 1111101 11011 10010101 0010111 1110111 1010101 1110001 0010101 111101 1011111 1110100 11010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,116 |
Words | 198 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 29 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 447 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 100 |
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Submitted by Madeleine Quinn on July 12, 2016
Modified by Madeleine Quinn on February 09, 2020
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