This is an analysis of In The Harbour: Possibilities by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Where are the Poets, unto whom belong
The Olympian heights; whose singing shafts were sent…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaXbbbbb
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1101010101 001001110101 1001110111 1001110001 1101010001 1101110111 1001011100 0111110111 0111110110 01110000111 1101010001 11001001101 1011110001 1111110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

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