Analysis of From The Spanish Cancioneros
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
I.
Eyes so tristful, eyes so tristful,
Heart so full of care and cumber,
I was lapped in rest and slumber,
Ye have made me wakeful, wistful!
In this life of labor endless
Who shall comfort my distresses?
Querulous my soul and friendless
In its sorrow shuns caresses.
Ye have made me, ye have made me
Querulous of you, that care not,
Eyes so tristful, yet I dare not
Say to what ye have betrayed me.
II.
Some day, some day
O troubled breast,
Shalt thou find rest.
If Love in thee
To grief give birth,
Six feet of earth
Can more than he;
There calm and free
And unoppressed
Shalt thou find rest.
The unattained
In life at last,
When life is passed,
Shall all be gained;
And no more pained,
No more distressed,
Shalt thou find rest.
III.
Come, O Death, so silent flying
That unheard thy coming be,
Lest the sweet delight of dying
Bring life back again to me.
For thy sure approach perceiving,
In my constancy and pain
I new life should win again,
Thinking that I am not living.
So to me, unconscious lying,
All unknown thy coming be,
Lest the sweet delight of dying
Bring life back again to me.
Unto him who finds thee hateful,
Death, thou art inhuman pain;
But to me, who dying gain,
Life is but a task ungrateful.
Come, then, with my wish complying,
All unheard thy coming be,
Lest the sweet delight of dying
Bring life back again to me.
IV.
Glove of black in white hand bare,
And about her forehead pale
Wound a thin, transparent veil,
That doth not conceal her hair;
Sovereign attitude and air,
Cheek and neck alike displayed
With coquettish charms arrayed,
Laughing eyes and fugitive;--
This is killing men that live,
'Tis not mourning for the dead.
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Metre | 1 111111 11111010 11101010 1111110 01111010 11101010 1001101 01101010 11111111 10011111 1111111 11111011 1 1111 1101 1111 1101 1111 1111 1111 1101 01 1111 01 0111 1111 1111 0111 1101 1111 1 11111010 1011101 10101110 1110111 11101010 0110001 1111101 10111110 1111010 1011101 10101110 1110111 10111110 1110101 1111101 11101010 11111010 1011101 10101110 1110111 1 1110111 0010101 1010101 1110101 101001 1010101 11101 1010100 1110111 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,655 |
Words | 309 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 13, 4, 7, 7, 21, 11 |
Lines Amount | 63 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 214 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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