Analysis of Flower-De-Luce: Hawthorne
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
How beautiful it was, that one bright day
In the long week of rain!
Though all its splendor could not chase away
The omnipresent pain.
The lovely town was white with apple-blooms,
And the great elms o'erhead
Dark shadows wove on their aerial looms
Shot through with golden thread.
Across the meadows, by the gray old manse,
The historic river flowed:
I was as one who wanders in a trance,
Unconscious of his road.
The faces of familiar friends seemed strange;
Their voices I could hear,
And yet the words they uttered seemed to change
Their meaning to my ear.
For the one face I looked for was not there,
The one low voice was mute;
Only an unseen presence filled the air,
And baffled my pursuit.
Now I look back, and meadow, manse, and stream
Dimly my thought defines;
I only see--a dream within a dream--
The hill-top hearsed with pines.
I only hear above his place of rest
Their tender undertone,
The infinite longings of a troubled breast,
The voice so like his own.
There in seclusion and remote from men
The wizard hand lies cold,
Which at its topmost speed let fall the pen,
And left the tale half told.
Ah! who shall lift that wand of magic power,
And the lost clew regain?
The unfinished window in Aladdin's tower
Unfinished must remain!
Scheme | ABAB CACX CDXD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN OBOB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1100111111 001111 1111011101 00101 0101111101 00111 111111001 111101 010110111 0010101 1111110001 10111 0101010111 110111 0101110111 110111 1011111111 011111 1010110101 010101 111101101 101101 1101010101 011111 1101011111 11010 01001010101 011111 1001000111 010111 111111101 010111 11111111010 001101 0010100110 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,254 |
Words | 228 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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