This is an analysis of Song Of The Silent Land. (From The German Of Salis) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Into the Silent Land!
Ah! who shall lead us thither?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: AXXaaXA AbbaabAXaaaaaaA
  • Stanza lengths: 7,15,
  • Metre: 000101 1111110 10010111010 1101110101 11100101 10110 000101 000101 0111010 01010101010 0101010111 10110111 1111010 000101 1111 1101010 01010111010 1010010111 01100101 0001001010 000101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 21

Repeated words/phrases

land

Anaphora

into, of

Epiphora

land