Analysis of The Brook And The Wave. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Third)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
The brooklet came from the mountain,
As sang the bard of old,
Running with feet of silver
Over the sands of gold!
Far away in the briny ocean
There rolled a turbulent wave,
Now singing along the sea-beach,
Now howling along the cave.
And the brooklet has found the billow,
Though they flowed so far apart,
And has filled with its freshness and sweetness
That turbulent, bitter heart!
| Scheme | ABXB ACXC XDXD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 0111010 110111 1011110 100111 10100110 1101001 11001011 1100101 00111010 1111101 0111110010 1100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 382 |
| Words | 70 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 11, 2023
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