Analysis of The Wave. (From The German Of Tiedge)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
'Whither, thou turbid wave?
Whither, with so much haste,
As if a thief wert thou?'
'I am the Wave of Life,
Stained with my margin's dust;
From the struggle and the strife
Of the narrow stream I fly
To the Sea's immensity,
To wash from me the slime
Of the muddy banks of Time.'
Scheme | XAX BXBXACC |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 10111 101111 110111 110111 11111 1010001 1010111 1011 111101 1010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 276 |
Words | 58 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 7 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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