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

The summer sun is sinking low;
Only the tree-tops redden and glow:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabXa ccddc bXeeb
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,
  • Metre: 01010101 100111011 100100101 001001001010 1001101 110010101 1111011001 1111111 11101100 11111 101011111 0010111110 101100101 1001010111 110101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 15

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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