This is an analysis of The Arrow And The Song by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aAbb aAcc XXdd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
- Metre: 111100001 01011111 11100101 11100001 11010001 01011111 11111111 101100101 11100011 11010110 101001001 1101001001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
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