Analysis of Ultima Thule: Night
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
Into the darkness and the hush of night
Slowly the landscape sinks, and fades away,
And with it fade the phantoms of the day,
The ghosts of men and things, that haunt the light,
The crowd, the clamor, the pursuit, the flight,
The unprofitable splendor and display,
The agitations, and the cares that prey
Upon our hearts, all vanish out of sight.
The better life begins; the world no more
Molests us; all its records we erase
From the dull commonplace book of our lives,
That like a palimpsest is written o'er
With trivial incidents of time and place,
And lo! the ideal, hidden beneath, revives.
Scheme | ABBAABBACDEFDG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101000111 100110101 0111010101 0111011101 0101000101 00100010001 0100111 01101110111 0101010111 0111101101 1011011101 110111010 11001001101 01001100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 590 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 468 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 106 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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