Analysis of Song Of The Silent Land. (From The German Of Salis)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
Into the Silent Land!
Ah! who shall lead us thither?
Clouds in the evening sky more darkly gather,
And shattered wrecks lie thicker on the strand.
Who leads us with a gentle hand
Thither, O thither,
Into the Silent Land?
Into the Silent Land!
To you, ye boundless regions
Of all perfection! Tender morning-visions
Of beauteous souls! The Future's pledge and band!
Who in Life's battle firm doth stand,
Shall bear Hope's tender blossoms
Into the Silent Land!
O Land! O Land!
For all the broken-hearted
The mildest herald by our faith allotted,
Beckons, and with inverted torch doth stand
To lead us with a gentle hand
Into the land of the great Departed,
Into the Silent Land!
| Scheme | AbbaabA AccaaxA adxaadA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010101 111111 10010111010 0101110101 11110101 111 010101 010101 1111010 11010101010 111010101 10110111 1111010 010101 1111 1101010 010101101010 1001010111 11110101 0101101010 010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 663 |
| Words | 120 |
| Sentences | 14 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7 |
| Lines Amount | 21 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 177 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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