This is an analysis of By The Seaside : The Fire Of Driftwood by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
We sat within the farm-house old,
Whose windows, looking o'er the bay,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd cece dada fdfd cgcg hhhh gXgX adad fifi cdcdXadad
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11010111 110101001 10011111 11010111 11011101 01110101 01100101 01010111 11110101 01010101 11010001 11010101 110100101 01111111 01101110 11111111 11110101 11110101 111111011 11010101 01110001 111100001 11010101 11001111 01010111 11011111 010100101 01010001 11010111 110001010 10010101 01111101 11110111 11010101 01100101 11110101 010100011 01010101 010101001 11010011 01110101 01010101 01110001 11110101 11111111 10011101 011100111 01111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, that
Anaphora
the, our, of, and
