Analysis of Ultima Thule: Bayard Taylor
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
Dead he lay among his books!
The peace of God was in his looks.
As the statues in the gloom
Watch o'er Maximilian's tomb,
So those volumes from their shelves
Watched him, silent as themselves.
Ah! his hand will nevermore
Turn their storied pages o'er;
Nevermore his lips repeat
Songs of theirs, however sweet.
Let the lifeless body rest!
He is gone, who was its guest;
Gone, as travellers haste to leave
An inn, nor tarry until eve.
Traveller! in what realms afar,
In what planet, in what star,
In what vast, aerial space,
Shines the light upon thy face?
In what gardens of delight
Rest thy weary feet to-night?
Poet! thou, whose latest verse
Was a garland on thy hearse;
Thou hast sung, with organ tone,
In Deukalion's life, thine own;
On the ruins of the Past
Blooms the perfect flower at last.
Friend! but yesterday the bells
Rang for thee their loud farewells;
And to-day they toll for thee,
Lying dead beyond the sea;
Lying dead among thy books,
The peace of God in all thy looks!
Scheme | AA BB CC XX DD EE FF GG HH II JJ KK LL MM NN AA |
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Poetic Form | Couplet |
Metre | 1110111 01111011 101001 11011 1110111 1110101 111110 11101010 101101 111101 1010101 1111111 11100111 11110011 10001101 0110011 0111001 1010111 0110101 1110111 1011101 1010111 1111101 01111 1010101 10011011 111001 111111 0111111 1010101 1010111 01110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 977 |
Words | 181 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 16 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 48 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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