Analysis of To The Stork. (Armenian Popular Song, From The Prose Version Of Alishan)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
Welcome, O Stork! that dost wing
Thy flight from the far-away!
Thou hast brought us the signs of Spring,
Thou hast made our sad hearts gay.
Descend, O Stork! descend
Upon our roof to rest;
In our ash-tree, O my friend,
My darling, make thy nest.
To thee, O Stork, I complain,
O Stork, to thee I impart
The thousand sorrows, the pain
And aching of my heart.
When thou away didst go,
Away from this tree of ours,
The withering winds did blow,
And dried up all the flowers.
Dark grew the brilliant sky,
Cloudy and dark and drear;
They were breaking the snow on high,
And winter was drawing near.
From Varaca's rocky wall,
From the rock of Varaca unrolled,
the snow came and covered all,
And the green meadow was cold.
O Stork, our garden with snow
Was hidden away and lost,
Mid the rose-trees that in it grow
Were withered by snow and frost.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KCKX GLGL |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1011111 1110101 11110111 11110111 011101 0110111 01011111 110111 1111101 1111101 0101001 010111 110111 01111110 0100111 0111010 110101 100101 10100111 0101101 11101 101111 0110101 001111 11101011 1100101 10111011 0101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 846 |
Words | 160 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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