Analysis of In The Harbour: To The Avon
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
Flow on, sweet river! like his verse
Who lies beneath this sculptured hearse;
Nor wait beside the churchyard wall
For him who cannot hear thy call.
Thy playmate once; I see him now
A boy with sunshine on his brow,
And hear in Stratford's quiet street
The patter of his little feet.
I see him by thy shallow edge
Wading knee-deep amid the sedge;
And lost in thought, as if thy stream
Were the swift river of a dream.
He wonders whitherward it flows;
And fain would follow where it goes,
To the wide world, that shall erelong
Be filled with his melodious song.
Flow on, fair stream! That dream is o'er;
He stands upon another shore;
A vaster river near him flows,
And still he follows where it goes.
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH XXGG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (25%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11110111 11011101 1101011 11110111 1111111 0111111 0101101 01011101 11111101 10110101 01011111 00110101 110111 01110111 1011111 111101001 111111110 11010101 0110111 01110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 690 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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