Analysis of Strada St. Ursola.—Malta
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
"A View of many dwellings, long tenanted by the last remnants of Chivalry."
Young knight, that broidered cloak undo,
And break that golden chain in two;
Take from your hand its jewels fair,
Shear those bright curls of sunny hair,
And offer up at yonder shrine
All vanities that once were thine.
No more the victor of the ring,
Thy triumphs will the minstrel sing;
No more upon thy helm the glove
Will ask of fame to sanction love.
The saraband untrod must be,
The lists, the dance are closed for thee.
Look to the past—if present there
Be visible one great despair:
Look to the future—if it give
Nothing which charmeth thee to live.
Then come—the present knows its doom;
Thy heart already is a tomb.
Thy cheek is pale—thy brow is worn—
Thy lip is bitter in its scorn.
I read in them the signs that tell
The heart’s impassioned chronicle.
’Tis past!—and Malta’s iron vow
To thee is less than nothing now.
Scheme | A BBCCDD EEFFAA CCXXGG HHXXII |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 011101011101101100 1111101 01110101 11111101 11111101 01011101 11001101 11010101 11010101 11011101 11111101 01111 01011111 11011101 11001101 11010111 1011111 11010111 11010101 11111111 11110011 11010111 01010100 1101101 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 930 |
Words | 168 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 143 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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