Analysis of In The Harbour: The City And The Sea
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
The panting City cried to the Sea,
'I am faint with heat,--O breathe on me!'
And the Sea said, 'Lo, I breathe! but my breath
To some will be life, to others death!'
As to Prometheus, bringing ease
In pain, come the Oceanides,
So to the City, hot with the flame
Of the pitiless sun, the east wind came.
It came from the heaving breast of the deep,
Silent as dreams are, and sudden as sleep.
Life-giving, death-giving, which will it be;
O breath of the merciful, merciless Sea?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010101101 111111111 0011111111 111111101 111101 01101 110101101 1010010111 1110101101 1011101011 1101101111 11101001001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 477 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 60 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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