Analysis of Delia. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fifth)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives,
When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives,
Sweet as a song that once consoled our pain,
But never will be sung to us again,
Is thy remembrance. Now the hour of rest
Hath come to thee. Sleep, darling; it is best.
| Scheme | ABCDEE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101010101 11010111101 11011101101 1101111101 11010101011 1111110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 270 |
| Words | 51 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 210 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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