This is an analysis of The Happiest Land. (From The German) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
There sat one day in quiet,
By an alehouse on the Rhine,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcb Xded ddbd fXbX Xbdb fdcd bcfc abeb Xddd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1111010 1111101 1111010 110101 01110111 010101 11111111 111111 1101010 010101 11111101 110101 11010011 100101 01011101 10111010 11101010 110101 111101011 1110101 01011101 000101 11111010 110101 111110110 0101001 110100101 0010001 1010101 1010101 10101010 1010111 1101110 1010101 11111101 1101001
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 37
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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