Analysis of Dear Gifts
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
Life's best gifts are bought dearly. Wealth is won
By years of toil, and often comes too late:
With pleasure comes satiety ; and pomp
Is compassed round with vexing vanities :
And genius, earth's most glorious gift, that lasts
When all beside is perished in the dust—
How bitter is the suffering it endures !
How dark the penalty that it exacts !
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110111 1111010111 1101101 111110100 01011100111 1101110001 11010100101 1101001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 341 |
Words | 60 |
Sentences | 3 |
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) | 64 |
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