This is an analysis of Voices Of The Night : A Psalm Of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream! -…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcXc dede fgfg chch bXbX iaia jkjkXfbfb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11101010 1011101 10101110 1111111 1011010 1010101 11101100 1110001 10101110 0110111 10111010 1110101 10111010 1111111 11101110 10010001 00111010 001001 01111010 0010001 111010010 10111001 11001001 10111100 10111011 1111101 10101011 1110101 11101010 10101101 001110010 1011101 11101110 0011101 10101010 1010101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
to, and, in
Anaphora
in, be, footprints
