This is an analysis of By The Fireside : Resignation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
There is no flock, however watched and tended,
But one dead lamb is there!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab caca ddXd dede fgXg fhfh fafa cbcb fdfd iaia fefe fjfj ckck
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 10111101110 111101 101101100010 111101 01010110010 110101 01010101010 010100 11010101010 100101 11010101000 010101 11110101110 011101 11011110010 1010101 10111110010 010101 01010001100 110111 10110101010 111011 11110111010 110111 01110101010 1100101 10010101010 111111 11011111010 011101 11010101010 010111 11110011010 011101 10110101010 110111 11011101010 1101001 01010101010 101001 10110001010 100101 11000101010 110101 11110100010 110101 01011101010 110011 10010101010 111101 1101001010 011111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 52
Repeated words/phrases
there
Anaphora
and, we
Anadiplosis
there