Analysis of The Mind's Unrest
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
Mind, dangerous and glorious gift!
Too much thy native heaven has left
Its nature in thee, for thy light
To be content with earthly home.
It hath another, and its sight
Will too much to that other roam ;
And heavenly light, and earthly clay,
But ill bear with alternate sway :
Till jarring elements create
The evil which they sought to shun,
And deeper feel their mortal state
In struggling for a higher one.
There is no rest for the proud mind,
Conscious of its high powers confined ;
Vain dreams and feverish hopes arise,
It is itself its sacrifice.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110001001 111101011 11001111 11101101 11010011 11111101 010010101 11111001 11010001 01011111 01011101 010010101 11111011 101111001 110100101 1101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 536 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 436 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 101 |
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