Analysis of Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. Interlude III.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
He ended: and a kind of spell
Upon the silent listeners fell.
His solemn manner and his words
Had touched the deep, mysterious chords
That vibrate in each human breast
Alike, but not alike confessed.
The spiritual world seemed near;
And close above them, full of fear,
Its awful adumbration passed,
A luminous shadow, vague and vast.
They almost feared to look, lest there,
Embodied from the impalpable air,
They might behold the Angel stand,
Holding the sword in his right hand.
At last, but in a voice subdued,
Not to disturb their dreamy mood,
Said the Sicilian: 'While you spoke,
Telling your legend marvellous,
Suddenly in my memory woke
The thought of one, now gone from us,--
An old Abate, meek and mild,
My friend and teacher, when a child,
Who sometimes in those days of old
The legend of an Angel told,
Which ran, as I remember, thus.'
Scheme | AABXCCDDEEFFGG HHIBIJKKLLJ |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11000111 010101001 11010011 110101001 11001101 01110101 01000111 01011111 11011 01001101 1111111 0101011 11010101 10010111 11100101 11011101 100100111 101101 100011001 01111111 1101101 11010101 10101111 01011101 11110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 830 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 14, 11 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 330 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 75 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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