Analysis of The Rainbow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky;
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
| Scheme | ABCCABCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (33%) |
| Metre | 11111101 01001 11111101 11111101 11111111 1111 01110101 01111111 11111100100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 255 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 188 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 61 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 22, 2023
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