Analysis of Agassiz
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
I stand again on the familiar shore,
And hear the waves of the distracted sea
Piteously calling and lamenting thee,
And waiting restless at thy cottage door.
The rocks, the sea-weed on the ocean floor,
The willows in the meadow, and the free
Wild winds of the Atlantic welcome me;
Then why shouldst thou be dead, and come no more?
Ah, why shouldst thou be dead, when common men
Are busy with their trivial affairs,
Having and holding? Why, when thou hadst read
Nature's mysterious manuscript, and then
Wast ready to reveal the truth it bears,
Why art thou silent! Why shouldst thou be dead?
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Metre | 1101100101 0101100101 11000101 0101011101 0101110101 01001001 1110010101 1111110111 1111111101 1101110001 1001011111 1001001001 1101010111 1111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 585 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 466 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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