This is an analysis of In The Harbour: Four By The Clock by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Four by the clock! and yet not day;
But the great world rolls and wheels away,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbaa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 11011111 101111101 00101110111 00011000 100100101 10100101 101010001 001011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

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