Analysis of Unavailing Regret
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
Farewell! and when the charm of change
Has sunk, as all must sink, in shade;
When joy, a wearied bird, begins
The wing to droop, the plume to fade;
When thou thyself, at length, hast felt
What thou hast made another feel—
The hope that sickens to despair,
The wound that time may sear, not heal;
When thou shalt pine for some fond heart
To beat in answering thine again;—
Then, false one, think once more on me.
And sigh to think it is in vain.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 1010111 11111101 11010101 01110111 1111111 11110101 0111101 01111111 11111111 110100101 11111111 01111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 472 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted by Madeleine Quinn on December 09, 2016
Modified by Madeleine Quinn on March 05, 2020
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