Analysis of Autumn
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
Thou comest, Autumn, heralded by the rain,
With banners, by great gales incessant fanned,
Brighter than brightest silks of Samarcand,
And stately oxen harnessed to thy wain!
Thou standest, like imperial Charlemagne,
Upon thy bridge of gold; thy royal hand
Outstretched with benedictions o'er the land,
Blessing the farms through all thy vast domain!
Thy shield is the red harvest moon, suspended
So long beneath the heaven's o'er-hanging eaves;
Thy steps are by the farmer's prayers attended;
Like flames upon an altar shine the sheaves;
And, following thee, in thy ovation splendid,
Thine almoner, the wind, scatters the golden leaves!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110100101 1101110101 10110111 0101010111 111010010 0111111101 01111001 1001111101 11101101010 110101010101 11110101010 1101110101 010010101010 11000110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 651 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 510 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 100 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 22, 2023
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