This is an analysis of Ultima Thule: My Cathedral by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Like two cathedral towers these stately pines
Uplift their fretted summits tipped with cones;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaaaabaaba
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 11010101101 1011010101 0101001101 1111011101 1101010001 1101011111 110010101 1101010101 1001010001 1101010011 10010010101 0101000101 1101010101 1111010011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

no

Anaphora

no