Analysis of Vox Populi. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Third)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
When Mazarvan the Magician
Journeyed westward through Cathay,
Nothing heard he but the praises
Of Badoura on his way.
But the lessening rumor ended
When he came to Khaledan,
There the folk were talking only
Of Prince Camaralzaman,
So it happens with the poets:
Every province hath its own;
Camaralzaman is famous
Where Badoura is unknown.
Scheme | ABXB XAXA XCXC |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 110010 1010101 10111010 11111 101001010 11111 10101010 111 11101010 10010111 1110 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 337 |
Words | 58 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 04, 2023
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