Analysis of Whither? (From The German Of Müller)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
I heard a brooklet gushing
From its rocky fountain near,
Down into the valley rushing,
So fresh and wondrous clear.
I know not what came o'er me,
Nor who the counsel gave;
But I must hasten downward,
All with my pilgrim-stave;
Downward, and ever farther,
And ever the brook beside;
And ever fresher murmured,
And ever clearer, the tide.
Is this the way I was going?
Whither, O brooklet, say I
Thou hast, with thy soft murmur,
Murmured my senses away.
What do I say of a murmur?
That can no murmur be;
'Tis the water-nymphs, that are singing
Their roundelays under me.
Let them sing, my friend, let them murmur,
And wander merrily near;
The wheels of a mill are going
In every brooklet clear.
Scheme | ABAB CDED FGEG AXFX FCAC FBAB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 110110 1110101 10101010 110101 11111101 110101 1111010 111101 1001010 0100101 0101010 0101001 11011110 101111 1111110 1011001 11111010 111101 101011110 11101 111111110 0101001 01101110 010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 699 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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