This is an analysis of The Indian Hunter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
When the summer harvest was gathered in,
And the sheaf of the gleaner grew white and thin,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddbbaa XXeeff agffdd aaeeff bbeeggXffffcc
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Metre: 1010101100 10100101111 1010100101 1010110101 1100100101 1110101101 1101011111 10110101001 1010011111 10110100101 1101011011 11110100101 0101011001 10111011000 011110101 110010111 1100101111 001101101 01001011101 1010110101 0101110111 1010100101 10100101101 1011110111 1010101001 1010010110 1110101101 10101010101 110111001 001111101 0100101111 1010110101 0111100101 10110100101 1010110101 10101110111 1011111111 0101110101 1110110101 0100101111 111110101111 10111100101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 42
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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