This is an analysis of In The Harbour: A Quiet Life. (From The French) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Let him who will, by force or fraud innate,
Of courtly grandeurs gain the slippery height;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaaaXXbccb
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1110111101 01010101001 1101010101 1001110101 1011110001 1101010101 01010010111 1001011101 1101011101 0101011101 1100110101 1100010101 1101011101 1101100101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Anaphora

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