This is an analysis of The Meeting by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

After so long an absence
At last we meet agin:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcb bded cbXb afgf ehgh Xaaa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1011110 111101 10101110 110111 01011010 11101101 101011110 001001011 11001110 0010101 111111110 1111101 11001010 11001011 11001010 011111 11011110 1011011 10101110 10100111 111110010 0101101 101111010 1101101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

of, we, and

Anaphora

and