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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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. more…

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