This is an analysis of Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Landlord's Tale; Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabba cdcdeeffX aaeeaaagg dhhadXa cggcggiijji giigddXiggdeekk ggagallcciiddhdh dmmddddd nnhooh mjmppj mjXdaadj mjmhhjgigi ggiijjgg affaaXddgaga
- Stanza lengths: 5,9,9,7,11,15,16,8,6,6,8,10,8,12,
- Metre: 101101111 001110101 100101001001 10010101 1010110111 1100110101 111100101 10100100101 00111010101 101111011 1110100100 100111001 11001011011 10101001101 1111110101 1001001011 110111001 110110101 010110101 010101111 010110101 1011111101 101010001 110111011 101100101 1001001111 0100110101 010110101 1010100100 101011101 11101000111 101010101 001010101 110010011 101101111 10110101 1010010111 001010001 111010111 010101001 101110101 010011101 011010101 10101111 1111101001 01011101 10010101 110010101 010101101 001101010101 001010101 110010111 1010010101 1010100101 01011111 1010110101 110100111 101100101 1010011101 11100101 111011111 1010101 111100101 110110101 0101000111 1010101101 101101111 1111110101 010110101 101001001011 11011011101 010100101 0100100101 01001101001 101001001001 11101101011 11111101101 01001011011 10111111001 1001001001 11101011001 1011101111 0010100101 1100101101 1110111101 0101001111 01110101 1110100101 11010001 101000101 110100101 110100111 01110101 111000100 11010100 10011111 1010110111 11100101 101010101 1010111101 01110101 1110010111 11010001 1010010101 110100101 10100111 1111101001 110110101 11110101 11010101 1101001111 10101001011 101010111 001111111 10011101 1100100101 1001101001 1101001011 11011101 11101101001 01001011011 0100101101 01001001101 10111101000 111011001 111100001 001001011011 01001011001 010011011 1011100101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 14
- Lines: 130
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, to, in, that, he
Anaphora
the, of, now, a, and, who, how
