Analysis of Apologue
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
The thought suggested by a Spanish saying.
Seek for me in the Arab maid's bower,
Where the fountain plays over the jasmine flower;
Seek for me in the light cascade,
The minstrel lists in the green-wood shade;
Seek me at morn 'mid the violet's dyes;
Seek me where rainbows paint April skies;
In the blue rush of rivers, the depths of the sea,
If we should sever, there seek for me.
Seek for me where the war-shots meet,
Where the soldier's cloak is his winding-sheet;
Seek for me where the lava wave,
Bursts from Etna's secret cave;
Seek for me where Christmas mirth
Brightens the circle of love round your hearth;
Where meteor-flames glance, where the stars are bright,
Where the beacon flashes at the dead midnight;
Where the lightning scathes the tall oak tree,
If we should sever, there seek for me.
Seek for me where the Spanish maid
Hearkens at eve to the serenade;
Seek for me where the clouds are dark,
Where the billows foam round the sinking bark;
Where the aspen leaf floats on the summer's gale,
Where the rose bends low at the nightingale's tale;
Where the wind-harp wakens in melody,
If we should sever, there seek for me.
Seek not me, if we should sever,
Parted once, we part for ever.
Scheme | x aabbccdD eeffxxggdD bbhhiidD aa |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010101010 1110010110 101011001010 11100101 010100111 11111011 11111101 001111001101 111101111 11110111 1010111101 11110101 111101 1111101 1001011111 11001110111 1010101011 101010111 111101111 11110101 10111001 11110111 1010110101 10101110101 101111011 101110100 111101111 11111110 10111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,256 |
Words | 224 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 10, 8, 2 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 187 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted by Madeleine Quinn on October 27, 2019
Modified by Madeleine Quinn on October 27, 2019
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