Analysis of Allah. (From The German Of Mahlmann)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
Allah gives light in darkness,
Allah gives rest in pain,
Cheeks that are white with weeping
Allah paints red again.
The flowers and the blossoms wither,
Years vanish with flying fleet;
But my heart will live on forever,
That here in sadness beat.
Gladly to Allah's dwelling
Yonder would I take flight;
There will the darkness vanish,
There will my eyes have sight.
| Scheme | XXAX BCBC ADXD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
| Metre | 1011010 101101 1111110 101101 010001010 1101101 111111010 110101 101110 101111 1101010 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 372 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 21, 2023
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