This is an analysis of On The Terrace Of The Aigalades. (From The French Of Méry) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
From this high portal, where upsprings
The rose to touch our hands in play,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XabC dede fdfd ghgh baba ijij bXXd bgbg kfkf lalC
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 00110110 01011101 11010111 01011011 10111101 11111001 111110101 01111101 01111111 01010111 11011101 10111111 01111111 00110001 11111101 01001111 10010101 10010111 010101010 11010111 11110101 10110101 101011111 01110101 01110101 1101011010 111001000 01110101 10110111 11010101 01100101 01011111 01111101 11110101 01010101 01000111 01010101 01010001 11100101 01011011
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
my, and, with, of
