Analysis of Wanderer's Night Songs. (From Goethe)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
I.
Thou that from the heavens art,
Every pain and sorrow stillest,
And the doubly wretched heart
Doubly with refreshment fillest,
I am weary with contending!
Why this rapture and unrest?
Peace descending
Come ah, come into my breast!
II.
O'er all the hill-tops
Is quiet now,
In all the tree-tops
Hearest thou
Hardly a breath;
The birds are asleep in the trees:
Wait; soon like these
Thou too shalt rest.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 1110101 10010101 0010101 1010101 11101010 1110001 1010 1110111 1 101011 1101 01011 11 1001 01101001 1111 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 405 |
Words | 73 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 158 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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