Analysis of Nature
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
As a fond mother, when the day is o'er,
Leads by the hand her little child to bed,
Half willing, half reluctant to be led,
And leave his broken playthings on the floor,
Still gazing at them through the open door,
Nor wholly reassured and comforted
By promises of others in their stead,
Which though more splendid, may not please him more;
So Nature deals with us, and takes away
Our playthings one by one, and by the hand
Leads us to rest so gently, that we go
Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay,
Being too full of sleep to understand
How far the unknown transcends the what we know.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110101110 1101010111 1101010111 011101101 1101110101 110010100 1100110011 1111011111 1101110101 1011110101 1111110111 1101111111 101111101 11001010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 586 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 460 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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