Analysis of The Snowdrop
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
Thou beautiful new comer,
With white and maiden brow;
Thou fairy gift from summer,
Why art thou blooming now?
This dim and sheltered alley
Is dark with winter green;
Not such as in the valley
At sweet spring-time is seen.
The lime-tree’s tender yellow,
The aspen's silvery sheen,
With mingling colours mellow
The universal green.
Now solemn yews are bending
Mid gloomy firs around;
And in long dark wreaths descending,
The ivy sweeps the ground.
No sweet companion pledges
Thy health as dew-drops pass;
No rose is on the hedges,
No violet in the grass.
Thou art watching, and thou only,
Above the earth’s snow tomb;
Thus lovely, and thus lonely,
I bless thee for thy bloom.
Though the singing rill be frozen,
While the wind forsakes the west;
Though the singing birds have chosen
Some lone and silent rest;
Like thee, one sweet thought lingers
In a heart else cold and dead,
Though the summer’s flowers, and singers,
And sunshine, long hath fled:
’Tis the love for long years cherished,
Yet lingering, lorn, and lone;
Though its lovelier lights have perished,
And its earlier hopes are flown.
Though a weary world hath bound it,
With many a heavy thrall;
And the cold and changed surround it,
It blossometh o’er all.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EDEDFGFG HIHICJCJ KLKLMNMN OPOPQRQR |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (28%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1100110 110101 1101110 111101 1101010 111101 1110010 111111 0111010 0101001 1100110 00101 1101110 110101 00111010 010101 1101010 111111 1111010 1100001 11100110 010111 1100110 111111 10101110 101101 10101110 110101 1111110 0011101 101010010 01111 10111110 1100101 1111110 01100111 10101111 1100101 00101011 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,294 |
Words | 211 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 191 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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