This is an analysis of In The Harbour: The Children's Crusade by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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What is this I read in history,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbcddceeC fccfggfcfC faaaffa ghcchg ifiiccf XecggcXXc jkkjjk ggllejXj Xiifeccef aagccccmgbbXge Xgabbg amgamgff ggcgfcf nnkkoaaoX cggbccppXccqccccqjiijiX
  • Stanza lengths: 10,10,7,6,7,9,6,8,9,14,6,8,7,9,23,
  • Metre: 1 100110100 101010100 1000101 0010001 10001001 1011101 10001111 0110011 10000101 1110101 1010111 1010001 1011101 1010111 0010101 1000101 1110101 1010101 10000101 10100101 0010101 1010111 1010001 1010111 1100101 1010101 1010111 1011101 1010101 1010011 1110001 1010111 10101010 10101110 10110010 00100010 1110101 1011111 10101010 10101100 0010001 0010001 11101111 1010101 1110110 01001100 11101010 1010101 0010001 1010101 1011101 1010001 1010101 1110101 1010011 0010111 1011101 1010110 10100111 0010001 1100101 0010101 1 00101010 00101010 1110001 1011011 1010101 0010001 1010101 1010101 0011101 1010101 0011101 1011101 1010101 10101010 10101010 101001110 10110101 10101010 11111010 1000100 1010101 1110 1 1110111 1110111 10111110 11101110 1110111 1010111 10101010 111010010 1110001 10101010 10001010 1000101 11101101 1010001 1011001 1001101 0010101 0011101 1010001 1011101 1010101 1010101 1100100 1000101 10100101 1011101 1011111 1010011 1010101 1010101 1111101 101100101 11100110 1011111 1011101 1011111 1010101 10100010 1011001 1010101 1110001 100101001 0010101 10010101 00100101 1010101 1010111 10111010 10101010 1000101 10101010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 15
  • Lines: 139

Repeated words/phrases

in, how, their, grew

Anaphora

passed, o, in, how, other