Analysis of Chaucer
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
An old man in a lodge within a park;
The chamber walls depicted all around
With portraitures of huntsman, hawk, and hound,
And the hurt deer. He listeneth to the lark,
Whose song comes with the sunshine through the dark
Of painted glass in leaden lattice bound;
He listeneth and he laugheth at the sound,
Then writeth in a book like any clerk.
He is the poet of the dawn, who wrote
The Canterbury Tales, and his old age
Made beautiful with song; and as I read
I hear the crowing cock, I hear the note
Of lark and linnet, and from every page
Rise odors of ploughed field or flowery mead.
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Metre | 1110010101 0101010101 11110101 001111101 111101101 1101010101 11011101 110011101 1101010111 010010111 1100110111 1101011101 11010011001 11011111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 640 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 460 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 112 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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