Analysis of The Angler's Song
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
From the river's plashy bank,
Where the sedge grows green and rank,
And the twisted woodbine springs,
Upward speeds the morning lark
To its silver cloud -- and hark!
On his way the woodman sings.
On the dim and misty lakes
Gloriously the morning breaks,
And the eagle's on his cloud:--
Whilst the wind, with sighing, wooes
To its arms the chaste cold ooze,
And the rustling reeds pipe loud.
Where the embracing ivy holds
Close the hoar elm in its folds,
In the meadow's fenny land,
And the winding river sweeps
Through its shallows and still deeps,--
Silent with my rod I stand.
But when sultry suns are high
Underneath the oak I lie
As it shades the water's edge,
And I mark my line, away
In the wheeling eddy, play,
Tangling with the river sedge.
When the eye of evening looks
On green woods and winding brooks,
And the wind sighs o'er the lea,--
Woods and streams,-- I leave you then,
While the shadow in the glen
Lengthens by the greenwood tree.
Scheme | AABCCB DDEBXE FFGXBG HHIJJI KKLMML |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 101011 1011101 001011 1010101 1110101 1110101 1010101 10000101 0010111 1011101 1110111 0010111 10010101 1011011 00111 0010101 111011 1011111 1110111 010111 1110101 0111101 0010101 1010101 1011101 1110101 00111001 1011111 101001 101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 928 |
Words | 180 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 147 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 04, 2023
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