Analysis of The Harvest Moon
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes
And roofs of villages, on woodland crests
And their aerial neighborhoods of nests
Deserted, on the curtained window-panes
Of rooms where children sleep, on country lanes
And harvest-fields, its mystic splendor rests!
Gone are the birds that were our summer guests,
With the last sheaves return the laboring wains!
All things are symbols: the external shows
Of Nature have their image in the mind,
As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves;
The song-birds leave us at the summer's close,
Only the empty nests are left behind,
And pipings of the quail among the sheaves.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011101 011100111 011001011 010101101 1111011101 0101110101 11011010101 10110101001 1111000101 1101110001 11001010101 0111110101 1001011101 011010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 609 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 493 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 104 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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