This is an analysis of The Sermon Of St. Francis. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fourth) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Up soared the lark into the air,
A shaft of song, a wingéd prayer,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb XXcc ddee eeff ggff ggbb ffaX ggddXeeaa
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11010001 0101011 10010101 010101001 11010101 11000100 010100010 010101010 01010101 01111101 01111101 11011101 11011101 11011111 11010101 11011101 11011101 01000101 11111100 111101011 11011101 01010011 11011101 11011101 11011101 11010111 11011101 111011010 01001111 01010101 11010101 11101101 11100101 01001101 11011011 01000111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
be, mine, your
Anaphora
the, not, and
