Analysis of The Wishing Gate
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
Wishes, no ! I have not one,
Hope’s sweet toil with me is done ;
One by one have flitted by,
All the rainbows of the sky.
Not a star could now unfold
Aught I once wished to be told.
What have I to seek of thee?
Not a wish remains for me.
Let the soldier pause to ask,
Honour on his glorious task ;
Let the parting sailor crave
A free wild wind across the wave ;
Let the maiden pause to frame
Blessings on some treasured name ;
Let them breathe their hopes in thee,
Not a wish remains for me.
Not a wish ! beat not my heart,
Thou hast bade thy dreams depart ;
They have past, but left behind
Weary spirit, wasted mind.
Ah ! if this old charm were sooth,
One wish yet might tax its truth
I would ask, however vain,
Never more to wish again.
* I believe that to this haunted gate a common superstition is attached, namely, that to wish and to have that wish fulfilled, is the result of such wish being uttered while passing.
Scheme | aabbccdD eeffggdD hhiidxxx x |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011111 1111111 111111 101101 1011101 1111111 1111111 1010111 1010111 1111001 1010101 01110101 1010111 1011101 1111101 1010111 1011111 1111101 1111101 1010101 1111101 1111111 111101 1011101 10111110101001010110111011110110011111010110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 920 |
Words | 178 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 1 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 176 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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