This is an analysis of Serenade From “the Spanish Student” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

STARS of the summer night!
Far in yon azure deeps,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXaBBb aXaBBb abaBBbXabaBBb
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,13,
  • Metre: 100101 101101 111101 11 1101 1 100101 111101 110101 11 1101 1 100101 110101 111101 11 1101 1 100101 100101 110101 11 1101 1
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

sleeps

Anadiplosis

sleeps