Analysis of Aftermath
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
When the summer fields are mown,
When the birds are fledged and flown,
And the dry leaves strew the path;
With the falling of the snow,
With the cawing of the crow,
Once again the fields we mow
And gather in the aftermath.
Not the sweet, new grass with flowers
Is this harvesting of ours;
Not the upland clover bloom;
But the rowen mixed with weeds,
Tangled tufts from marsh and meads,
Where the poppy drops its seeds
In the silence and the gloom.
Scheme | AABACCBDDEFFFE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010111 1011101 0011101 1010101 101101 1010111 0100010 10111110 11100110 1010101 1010111 1011101 1010111 0010001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 497 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 352 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 84 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 09, 2023
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