Analysis of In The Harbour: Four By The Clock
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
Four by the clock! and yet not day;
But the great world rolls and wheels away,
With its cities on land, and its ships at sea,
Into the dawn that is to be!
Only the lamp in the anchored bark
Sends its glimmer across the dark,
And the heavy breathing of the sea
Is the only sound that comes to me.
| Scheme | AABB CCBB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11010111 101110101 11101101111 01011111 100100101 11100101 001010101 101011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 297 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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