This is an analysis of The Song Of Hiawatha Xxii: Hiawatha's Departure by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
By the shore of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XabcdeefgXhf hbffgaia jkaiXXfgj dghhhlh Cecaca aXXXch afCchafmXcgeh jdbXhhfEbf jhhEnnXn XobEmhcX iahfcX amAjmfX jbffXXhpc qfeXXbhX XehqEbmAaX gmfoXhndXbbhf cqbehX dbfhbX eagbagejjab peXgiXkjb jXhX XOgDXlbbbfaX lhfh mOhgnlbnbX jcacfaXd ceoaaajghc fcdahoe X
- Stanza lengths: 12,8,9,7,6,6,13,10,8,8,6,7,9,8,10,13,6,6,11,9,4,12,4,10,8,10,7,11,9,
- Metre: 101011 10101110 10110010 00101010 10101110 10111010 10111110 10111011 1001010010 10101010 10101010 10100011 10111010 10101011 00101010 100100011 10100110 10100010 100111011 10001010 00101010 111001010 10101010 10101011 00101110 00101000 10110010 11000101 11101010 010101010 10111010 10101010 10111010 100101010 10111111 10101110 100101010 10001010 10001010 11100010 11101110 10101010 10100010 10100010 10100111 10111010 00101010 00101110 01101110 10100110 100101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10100011 10101010 00101010 00101010 10111010 10101011 00110010 10101010 00101010 10101010 10101000 10101010 10101010 10101010 10111011 00101010 10101010 10101010 10111001 100001110 11111011 11101011 11111011 11101110 10111111 10101110 10101110 10111110 11111011 10111110 11101111 11101010 10111111 100111011 10111010 100110111 01100011 11101010 11111011 10111110 100001010 10111010 10011010 10011110 10111010 10111010 101001010 10100010 10011010 10011010 10101100 10101010 10101010 10101011 11101110 10110010 101000010 10100010 00100100 101001010 10101010 10111110 11111011 00101011 01111010 10001010 10001110 10111011 00101010 100001010 10111010 10111110 11111011 10111010 10100010 10010010 10001010 1011010 10101110 11111111 11101110 10101100 11111011 11101111 10100010 10100010 10111010 11100110 11111010 10111111 00111110 11111011 11111010 11100010 00111010 10100010 101001110 00101010 10001110 10101010 00101010 10101010 00101010 10101010 00111110 101101110 10101010 10001010 100001010 1010010011 10101110 10111010 11100010 10101011 10011011 11101010 10101010 100001010 00111010 11101100 10101001 011011100 11101100 10111010 00100011 00100011 00111100 11111011 01111110 11101110 11101010 10101010 10101110 0010100 10001011 111010100 11101011 10101001 11101110 10111010 10111010 01110110 11101011 11111011 10011010 10001111 101001110 00101110 10111010 11101110 101110010 10101110 00100010 10100010 10001010 10101010 10101010 101110010 10111010 10101010 11111010 11111010 10101010 100010011 10001010 10001010 10100010 11101010 10101110 10011010 10100010 10111010 10001010 111100100 11001100 10101110 11111010 11001100 10101010 101001010 11001100 10100111 00101011 11001100 10101010 10100010 00100011 00101010 00100011 00111100 0010001 00100100 00100010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 29
- Lines: 247
Repeated words/phrases
and, from, of, nearer, his, you, so, peace, all, told, how, him, never, to, sailed, into, hiawatha
Anaphora
by, all, passed, as, with, something, or, from, peace, seated, waiting, told, how, and, we, to, see, never, bade, listen, sailed, in
Epiphora
you, him, them, '
Anadiplosis
you, hiawatha
