This is an analysis of Epimetheus, Or The Poet's Afterthought. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Have I dreamed? or was it real,
What I saw as in a vision,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXaX cdccd cXccc ceXce fXffb bbbbb eXXeX gdggd hfhhf XXeeX iiXii XXeee ceccX
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Metre: 1111101 11110010 1010100 0010001 111101100 11101110 11111011 101010010 10100010 10101011 11111010 10111010 10111110 101100010 1010010 11111010 11101010 100110100 110101110 11100010 11111100 11101100 10101010 101110101 00101010 00101010 11101010 11100010 10101010 10001010 10101110 00101100 11101110 01101010 110101010 10101010 10101011 11101110 10011010 00110011 11111010 00111010 01100010 00101010 100101010 11111100 10101010 01101110 11111010 10111100 10111110 100111110 10101010 10111110 11101010 11111010 11101100 1110110010 101000110 111011010 10101110 10101110 11101110 11111010 11111010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 65
Repeated words/phrases
thee, as, my
