Analysis of Rebecca
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
She looketh on the glittering scene
With an unquiet eye;
The shadow of the wakening heart
Is passing darkly by.
The heart that is a woman’s world,
Her temple and her home,
Which coloureth with itself her cares,
Whence all her joys must come.
All generous feelings nursed the love
That out of pity came;
Womanly kindness, suffering truth,
Might sanctify its claim.
But better had she shared the doom,
She bade from him depart;
Death has no bitterness like life,
Life with a wasted heart.
Proud—beautiful—she boweth down
Beneath one deep despair;
Youth lingers lovely on her cheek,
It only lingers there.
She will command herself, and bear
The doom by Fate assigned;
In natures high as her's, the heart
Is mastered by the mind.
But not the less ’tis desolate,
All lofty thoughts and dreams;
The poetry, with whose deep life
All stronger feeling teems.
These aggravate the ill, and give
A misery of their own;
The gifted spirit suffers much,
To common ones unknown.
Why did she love? Alas, such choice
Is not at woman’s will;
Once must she love, and on that cast
Is set life’s good or ill.
Sorrows, and timid cares, and tears,
The happiest entertain;
But this world has no other hope,
For her who loves in vain.
Scheme | XABAXXCX XDXDXBEB XFXFFGBG XHEHXIXI XJXJCKXK |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11101001 1111 011011 110101 0111011 010001 1110101 110111 110010101 111101 1101001 110011 11011101 111101 11110011 110101 1100111 011101 11010101 110101 11010101 011101 01011101 110101 11011100 110101 01001111 110101 1100101 0100111 01010101 110101 11110111 11111 11110111 111111 10010101 010001 11111101 101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,290 |
Words | 215 |
Sentences | 11 |
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) | 189 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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