Analysis of The Boy And The Brook. (Armenian Popular Song, From The Prose Version Of Alishan)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
Down from yon distant mountain height
The brooklet flows through the village street;
A boy comes forth to wash his hands,
Washing, yes washing, there he stands,
In the water cool and sweet.
Brook, from what mountain dost thou come,
O my brooklet cool and sweet!
I come from yon mountain high and cold,
Where lieth the new snow on the old,
And melts in the summer heat.
Brook, to what river dost thou go?
O my brooklet cool and sweet!
I go to the river there below
Where in bunches the violets grow,
And sun and shadow meet.
Brook, to what garden dost thou go?
O my brooklet cool and sweet!
I go to the garden in the vale
Where all night long the nightingale
Her love-song doth repeat.
Brook, to what fountain dost thou go?
O my brooklet cool and sweet!
I go to the fountain at whose brink
The maid that loves thee comes to drink,
And whenever she looks therein,
I rise to meet her, and kiss her chin,
And my joy is then complete.
Scheme | xabba xAcca dAdda dAeea dAffgga |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 01110101 01111111 10110111 0010101 11110111 111101 111110101 11011101 0100101 11110111 111101 111010101 101001001 01011 11110111 111101 111010001 11110100 011101 11110111 111101 111010111 01111111 00101101 111100101 0111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 937 |
Words | 181 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 7 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 144 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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