Analysis of The Coronation
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
What memories haunt the venerable pile !
It is the mighty treasury of the past,
Where England garners up her glorious dead.
The ancient chivalry are sleeping there —
Men who sought out the Turk in Palestine,
And laid the crescent low before the cross.
The sea has sent her victories : those aisles
Wave with the banners of a thousand fights.
There, too, are the mind's triumphs — in those tombs
Sleep poets and philosophers, whose light
Is on the heaven of our intellect.
The very names inscribed on those old walls
Make the place sacred.
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Metre | 11001010001 11010100101 11010101001 0101001101 111101010 0101010101 0111010011 1101010101 1110110011 1100010011 1101011010 0101011111 10110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 542 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 427 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 97 |
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