Analysis of In The Harbour: The Four Lakes Of Madison
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
Four limpid lakes,--four Naiades
Or sylvan deities are these,
In flowing robes of azure dressed;
Four lovely handmaids, that uphold
Their shining mirrors, rimmed with gold,
To the fair city in the West.
By day the coursers of the sun
Drink of these waters as they run
Their swift diurnal round on high;
By night the constellations glow
Far down the hollow deeps below,
And glimmer in another sky.
Fair lakes, serene and full of light,
Fair town, arrayed in robes of white,
How visionary ye appear!
All like a floating landscape seems
In cloud-land or the land of dreams,
Bathed in a golden atmosphere!
Scheme | AABCCB DDEFFE GGHAAH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111 11010011 01011101 1101101 11010111 10110001 1101101 11110111 11010111 1100101 11010101 01000101 11010111 11010111 1100101 1101011 01110111 1001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 594 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 159 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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