Analysis of Shakespeare
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
A vision as of crowded city streets,
With human life in endless overflow;
Thunder of thoroughfares; trumpets that blow
To battle; clamor, in obscure retreats,
Of sailors landed from their anchored fleets;
Tolling of bells in turrets, and below
Voices of children, and bright flowers that throw
O'er garden-walls their intermingled sweets!
This vision comes to me when I unfold
The volume of the Poet paramount,
Whom all the Muses loved, not one alone; --
Into his hands they put the lyre of gold,
And, crowned with sacred laurel at their fount,
Placed him as Musagetes on their throne.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101110101 110101010 101101011 1101000101 1101011101 1011010001 10110011011 1010110101 1101111101 010101010 1101011101 0111110111 0111010111 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 640 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 466 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 99 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 31, 2023
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