This is an analysis of A Dutch Picture. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fifth) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Simon Danz has come home again,
From cruising about with his buccaneers;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaXb bcbbc adaad eaeeX fbffe abaab afaaf adXad bgbbg cXccX abaXb
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Metre: 10111101 0100100101 1110100101 110010101 111001 00110100101 1100100101 1110100011 1001011011 010111 0010101101 10100101 001011101 01110111 100101 0100101011 0101100101 101010111 1010100111 0100101 01110101 10011001 0111010101 0100100111 1000101 11010101 111110101 11100110 110110101 110111 111001111 001001000101 10010101 11111001 110111 111010111 11101011001 1110110100 001001101 110111 10110101 110010011 1010111101 1100101101 1110101 100100111 100111001 1101100001 10111011 111101 11111100101 111100101 010100101 110010101 111001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 55
Repeated words/phrases
of, in, and
Anaphora
and, he
