Analysis of Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 2. Interlude V.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
Well pleased the audience heard the tale.
The Theologian said: 'Indeed,
To praise you there is little need;
One almost hears the farmers flail
Thresh out your wheat, nor does there fail
A certain freshness, as you said,
And sweetness as of home-made bread.
But not less sweet and not less fresh
Are many legends that I know,
Writ by the monks of long-ago,
Who loved to mortify the flesh,
So that the soul might purer grow,
And rise to a diviner state;
And one of these--perhaps of all
Most beautiful--I now recall,
And with permission will narrate;
Hoping thereby to make amends
For that grim tragedy of mine,
As strong and black as Spanish wine,
I told last night, and wish almost
It had remained untold, my friends;
For Torquemada's awful ghost
Came to me in the dreams I dreamed,
And in the darkness glared and gleamed
Like a great lighthouse on the coast.'
The Student laughing said: 'Far more
Like to some dismal fire of bale
Flaring portentous on a hill;
Or torches lighted on a shore
By wreckers in a midnight gale.
No matter; be it as you will,
Only go forward with your tale.'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110100101 00100101 11111101 1110101 11111111 01010111 01011111 11110111 11010111 11011101 1111001 11011101 011011 01110111 1100111 0101011 10111101 11110011 11011101 1111011 11010111 11101 11100111 00010101 1011101 01010111 111101011 10010101 11010101 110011 11011111 10110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,062 |
Words | 202 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 25, 7 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 425 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 99 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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