Analysis of Self-Blindness
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
What Shakspeare said of lovers, might apply
To all the world — " 'Tis well they do not see
The pretty follies that themselves commit."
Could we but turn upon ourselves the eyes
With which we look on others, life would pass
In one perpetual blush and smile.
The smile, how bitter ! — for 'tis scorn's worst task
To scorn ourselves ; and yet we could not choose
But mock our actions, all we say or do,
If we but saw them as we others see.
Life's best repose is blindness to itself.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110101 1101111111 0101010101 11110100101 1111110111 010100101 0111011111 11001011111 11101011111 1111111101 1101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 483 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 367 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 94 |
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