Analysis of Holidays
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
The holiest of all holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
The secret anniversaries of the heart,
When the full river of feeling overflows;--
The happy days unclouded to their close;
The sudden joys that out of darkness start
As flames from ashes; swift desires that dart
Like swallows singing down each wind that blows!
White as the gleam of a receding sail,
White as a cloud that floats and fades in air,
White as the whitest lily on a stream,
These tender memories are;--a fairy tale
Of some enchanted land we know not where,
But lovely as a landscape in a dream.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0100111011 11001010001 0100100101 1011011010 01011111 0101111101 11110101011 1101011111 1101100101 1101110101 1101010101 11010010101 1101011111 110101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 580 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 464 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 106 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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