Alteration
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
My heart hath turned aside
From its early dreams ;
To me their course has been
Like mountain streams.
Bright and pure they left
Their place of birth ;
Soon on every wave
Came taints of earth.
Weeds grew upon the banks,
And, as the waters swept,
A bad or useless part
Of all they kept,
Till it reached the plain below,
An altered thing
Bearing gloomy trace, —
Of its wandering.
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Submitted by Madeleine Quinn on November 26, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC XDXD |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 378 |
Words | 70 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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