Analysis of Voices Of The Night : L'Envoi
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
Ye voices, that arose
After the Evening's close,
And whispered to my restless heart repose!
Go, breathe it in the ear
Of all who doubt and fear,
And say to them, 'Be of good cheer!'
Ye sounds, so low and calm,
That in the groves of balm
Seemed to me like an angel's psalm!
Go, mingle yet once more
With the perpetual roar
Of the pine forest dark and hoar!
Tongues of the dead, not lost
But speaking from deaths frost,
Like fiery tongues at Pentecost!
Glimmer, as funeral lamps,
Amid the chills and damps
Of the vast plain where Death encamps!
Scheme | AXA XBB CCX DDD EEE FFA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101 100101 0101110101 111001 111101 01111111 111101 100111 1111111 110111 1001001 10110101 110111 110111 11001110 1011001 010101 1011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 533 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 70 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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