Analysis of Remorse. (From August Von Platen)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
How I started up in the night, in the night,
Drawn on without rest or reprieval!
The streets, with their watchmen, were lost to my sight,
As I wandered so light
In the night, in the night,
Through the gate with the arch mediaeval.
The mill-brook rushed from the rocky height,
I leaned o'er the bridge in my yearning;
Deep under me watched I the waves in their flight,
As they glided so light
In the night, in the night,
Yet backward not one was returning.
O'erhead were revolving, so countless and bright,
The stars in melodious existence;
And with them the moon, more serenely bedight;--
They sparkled so light
In the night, in the night,
Through the magical, measureless distance.
And upward I gazed in the night, in the night,
And again on the waves in their fleeting;
Ah woe! thou hast wasted thy days in delight,
Now silence thou light,
In the night, in the night,
The remorse in thy heart that is beating.
Scheme | abaaAb acaaAc adaaAd acaaAc |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101001001 1101111 01111001111 111011 001001 1011011 011110101 1110010110 11011101011 111011 001001 110111010 1001011001 0100100010 01101101001 11011 001001 10100110 01011001001 0011010110 11111011001 11011 001001 0010111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 919 |
Words | 169 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 177 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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