Analysis of In The Harbour: Auf Wiedersehen
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
Until we meet again! That is the meaning
Of the familiar words, that men repeat
At parting in the street.
Ah yes, till then! but when death intervening
Rends us asunder, with what ceaseless pain
We wait for the Again!
The friends who leave us do not feel the sorrow
Of parting, as we feel it, who must stay
Lamenting day by day,
And knowing, when we wake upon the morrow,
We shall not find in its accustomed place
The one beloved face.
It were a double grief, if the departed,
Being released from earth, should still retain
A sense of earthly pain;
It were a double grief, if the true-hearted,
Who loved us here, should on the farther shore
Remember us no more.
Believing, in the midst of our afflictions,
That death is a beginning, not an end,
We cry to them, and send
Farewells, that better might be called predictions,
Being fore-shadowings of the future, thrown
Into the vast Unknown.
Faith overleaps the confines of our reason,
And if by faith, as in old times was said,
Women received their dead
Raised up to life, then only for a season
Our partings are, nor shall we wait in vain
Until we meet again!
Scheme | ABBACD EFFEGG HCCHII JKKJLL MNNMCD |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 01110111010 1001011101 110001 1111111010 1101011101 111001 01111111010 1101111111 010111 01011101010 1111010101 01011 10010110010 1001111101 011101 10010110110 1111110101 010111 010001110010 1110010111 111101 1110111010 101110101 010101 110111010 0111101111 100111 11111101010 1011111101 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,091 |
Words | 207 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 173 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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