Analysis of The Burial Of The Poet
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
In the old churchyard of his native town,
And in the ancestral tomb beside the wall,
We laid him in the sleep that comes to all,
And left him to his rest and his renown.
The snow was falling, as if Heaven dropped down
White flowers of Paradise to strew his pall;--
The dead around him seemed to wake, and call
His name, as worthy of so white a crown.
And now the moon is shining on the scene,
And the broad sheet of snow is written o'er
With shadows cruciform of leafless trees,
As once the winding-sheet of Saladin
With chapters of the Koran; but, ah! more
Mysterious and triumphant signs are these.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 001111101 00001010101 1110011111 0111110101 01110111011 1101101111 0101111101 1111011101 0101110101 00111111010 1111101 1101011100 1101001111 01000010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 595 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 468 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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