Analysis of In The Harbour: A Fragment
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
Awake! arise! the hour is late!
Angels are knocking at thy door!
They are in haste and cannot wait,
And once departed come no more.
Awake! arise! the athlete's arm
Loses its strength by too much rest;
The fallow land, the untilled farm
Produces only weeds at best.
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 010101011 10110111 11010101 01010111 0101011 10111111 011011 01010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 266 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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