Analysis of Resolves
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
What mockeries are our most firm resolves !
To will is ours, but not to execute.
We map our future like some unknown coast,
And say, " Here is an harbour, here a rock —
The one we will attain, the other shun :"
And we do neither. Some chance gale springs up
And bears us far o'er some unfathomed sea.
Our efforts are all vain ; at length we yield
To winds and waves, that laugh at man's control.
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Metre | 111101101 1111011110 11101011011 0111110101 0111010101 0111011111 011110111 10101111111 1101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 397 |
Words | 78 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 9 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 298 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 80 |
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