This is an analysis of Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 2. The Musician's Tale; The Ballad Of Carmilhan - Iii. by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

The cabin windows have grown blank
As eyeballs of the dead;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abccb Xcbbc bXddX bbccb ebeeb fgffg gedde dcffX cbbbb adggd fdhhdXddbbd
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
  • Metre: 01010111 111001 11010101 10110001 110101 10010100 110001 01010001 01010101 110101 10011101 110101 00010101 101011111 1011101 11010101 101011 11110101 11111111 1100101 01110111 0110111 11010111 11111101 011111 01111111 111110 110101001 01110001 110101 01011101 111101 010010001 01010101 010101 11010101 010101 11100101 11000101 111110 01010101 010101 11111101 01110101 110101 11001101 110101 11111111 11110101 010101 11000101 110001 00010101 11010001 110001 11111111 101101 01010101 11010101 110101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 12
  • Lines: 60

Repeated words/phrases

and, as, of

Anaphora

't, and, the, a, cape