Analysis of To William E. Channing
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
The pages of thy book I read,
And as I closed each one,
My heart, responding, ever said,
"Servant of God! well done!"
Well done! Thy words are great and bold;
At times they seem to me,
Like Luther's, in the days of old,
Half-battles for the free.
Go on, until this land revokes
The old and chartered Lie,
The feudal curse, whose whips and yokes
Insult humanity.
A voice is ever at thy side
Speaking in tones of might,
Like the prophetic voice, that cried
To John in Patmos, "Write!"
Write! and tell out this bloody tale;
Record this dire eclipse,
This Day of Wrath, this Endless Wail,
This dread Apocalypse!
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EXED FGFG HEHE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01011111 011111 11010101 101111 11111101 111111 1100111 110101 1101111 010101 01011101 010100 01110111 100111 10010111 11011 10111101 011101 11111101 11010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 617 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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