Analysis of Dangers Faced
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
My heart is filled with bitter thought,
My eyes would fain shed tears;
I have been thinking upon past,
And upon future years.
Years past — why should I stir the depths
Beneath their troubled stream ?
And years that are as yet to come,
Of them I dread to dream.
Yet wherefore pause upon our way ?
Tis best to hurry on ;
For half the dangers that we fear,
We face them, and they're gone.
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
Metre | 11111101 111111 11110011 001101 11111101 011101 01111111 111111 11101101 111101 11010111 111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 387 |
Words | 74 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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