This is an analysis of Old St David's At Radnor by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

What an image of peace and rest
Is this little church among its graves!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abaab bcbbc deddX Xfggf aaaaa fhbfh edXed
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Metre: 11100111 001010101 101100101 010100101 11100101 110101101 10010100 1100100101 011110111 010010101 110111111 0011110101 010100111 011010111 10111001110 10101100 10110010 110110101 100101001 110110100 001010101 11010111 101110101 101110001 101110011 010100101 010100101 11010100 1110101101 010101101 11111101 001010111 1111011010 11011111 01100100101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 35

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anaphora

the, and, were