The Brook And The Wave. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Third)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
The brooklet came from the mountain,
As sang the bard of old,
Running with feet of silver
Over the sands of gold!
Far away in the briny ocean
There rolled a turbulent wave,
Now singing along the sea-beach,
Now howling along the cave.
And the brooklet has found the billow,
Though they flowed so far apart,
And has filled with its freshness and sweetness
That turbulent, bitter heart!
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 11, 2023
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| Scheme | ABXB ACXC XDXD |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 382 |
| Words | 70 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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