Analysis of Canzone
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
Ah me! ah me! when thinking of the years,
The vanished years, alas, I do not find
Among them all one day that was my own!
Fallacious hope; desires of the unknown,
Lamenting, loving, burning, and in tears
(For human passions all have stirred my mind),
Have held me, now I feel and know, confined
Both from the true and good still far away.
I perish day by day;
The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary,
And I am near to fail, infirm and weary.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110101 0101011111 0111111111 01010101001 0101010001 1101011111 1111110101 1101011101 110111 011011110 01111101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 448 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 343 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 86 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 05, 2023
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