Analysis of Changed. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Third)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
From the outskirts of the town
Where of old the mile-stone stood,
Now a stranger, looking down
I behold the shadowy crown
Of the dark and haunted wood.
Is it changed, or am I changed?
Ah! the oaks are fresh and green,
But the friends with whom I ranged
Through their thickets are estranged
By the years that intervene.
Bright as ever flows the sea,
Bright as ever shines the sun,
But alas! they seem to me
Not the sun that used to be,
Not the tides that used to run.
Scheme | ABAAB CDCCD EFEEF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101101 1110111 1010101 10101001 1010101 1111111 1011101 1011111 1110101 101101 1110101 1110101 1011111 1011111 1011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 462 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 121 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
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