Analysis of Boston
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
St. Botolph's Town! Hither across the plains
And fens of Lincolnshire, in garb austere,
There came a Saxon monk, and founded here
A Priory, pillaged by marauding Danes,
So that thereof no vestige now remains;
Only a name, that, spoken loud and clear,
And echoed in another hemisphere,
Survives the sculptured walls and painted panes.
St. Botolph's Town! Far over leagues of land
And leagues of sea looks forth its noble tower,
And far around the chiming bells are heard;
So may that sacred name forever stand
A landmark, and a symbol of the power,
That lies concentred in a single word.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111100101 011100101 1101010101 01001010101 111110101 1001110101 010001010 0101010101 111110111 01111111010 010101111 1111010101 0100101010 11100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 581 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 463 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 102 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 20, 2023
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