Analysis of Memory
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
Ah ! there are memories that will not vanish ;
Thoughts of the past we have no power to banish ;
To shew the heart how powerless mere will,
For we may suffer, and yet struggle still.
It is not at our choice that we forget,
That is a power no science teaches yet :
The heart may be a dark and closed up tomb ;
But memory stands a ghost amid the gloom !
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110011110 110111110110 1101110011 1111001101 11111011101 11010110101 0111010111 11001010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 351 |
Words | 69 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 267 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 75 |
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