Analysis of Serenade from “The Spanish Student”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
STARS of the summer night!
Far in yon azure deeps,
Hide, hide your golden light!
She sleeps!
My lady sleeps!
Sleeps!
Moon of the summer night!
Far down yon western steeps,
Sink, sink in silver light!
She sleeps!
My lady sleeps!
Sleeps!
Wind of the summer night!
Where yonder woodbine creeps,
Fold, fold thy pinions light!
She sleeps!
My lady sleeps!
Sleeps!
Dreams of the summer night!
Tell her, her lover keeps
Watch! while in slumbers light
She sleeps!
My lady sleeps!
Sleeps!
| Scheme | abaBBB abaBBB abaBBB abaBBB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110101 101101 111101 11 1101 1 110101 111101 110101 11 1101 1 110101 11011 11111 11 1101 1 110101 100101 11011 11 1101 1 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 467 |
| Words | 85 |
| Sentences | 21 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 24 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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