This is an analysis of In The Harbour: Elegiac Verse by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
I.
Peradventure of old, some bard in Ionian Islands,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbXa Xccb Xde Xdb XXf aeg ahijb Xhi XgXfjej Xbi ccX adX XXd XXb Xec
- Stanza lengths: 5,4,3,3,3,3,5,3,7,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Metre: 1 1000011101010 10011011001001 101000001001100 1000011011001 1101001100011000 1011011011101 10100010110010100 11010101010001 1 1001011011010010 100110110010101 1 1010010111010110 1001011001101 1 1101001011010010 10110111001101 1 110101111110110 111111111111 1 100110001110010 11011011001001 1101001011010100 11000011001001 1 1011001101001010 10010011001001 1 10010010100100 10 10010011001001 10010010011101 10 1010111001001 1 10101111111110 1101011101001 1 1010010010010011 0110111111001 1 011101111010010 10010111001001 1 100100110110110 111100100001001 1 00110111111100 10111111101101 1 10010010110010010 1001001101011
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 15
- Lines: 54
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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