Analysis of Venice
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
White swan of cities, slumbering in thy nest
So wonderfully built among the reeds
Of the lagoon, that fences thee and feeds,
As sayeth thy old historian and thy guest!
White water-lily, cradled and caressed
By ocean streams, and from the silt and weeds
Lifting thy golden filaments and seeds,
Thy sun-illumined spires, thy crown and crest!
White phantom city, whose untrodden streets
Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting
Shadows of palaces and strips of sky;
I wait to see thee vanish like the fleets
Seen in mirage, or towers of cloud uplifting
In air their unsubstantial masonry.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110100011 1100010101 1001110101 11110100011 110101001 1101010101 1011010001 1101011101 11010111 11001101010 111000111 1111110101 10011101110 0111100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 588 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 478 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 100 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 02, 2023
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