Analysis of Wapentake
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
To Alfred Tennyson
Poet! I come to touch thy lance with mine;
Not as a knight, who on the listed field
Of tourney touched his adversary's shield
In token of defiance, but in sign
Of homage to the mastery, which is thine,
In English song; nor will I keep concealed,
And voiceless as a rivulet frost-congealed,
My admiration for thy verse divine.
Not of the howling dervishes of song,
Who craze the brain with their delirious dance,
Art thou, O sweet historian of the heart!
Therefore to thee the laurel-leaves belong,
To thee our love and our allegiance,
For thy allegiance to the poet's art.
Scheme | X ABBAABBACXDCXD |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 110100 1011111111 1101110101 1101111 0101010101 11010100111 0101111101 010101101 101011101 11010111 11011101001 11110100101 111010101 11101010010 1101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 586 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 14 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 233 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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