This is an analysis of Voices Of The Night : Hymn To The Night by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Aspasie, trillistos.
I heard the trailing garments of the Night…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X abab acac abab dbdb ddddXdada
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Metre: 10100 1101010001 110101 11010111001 000101 1101010101 1101001 0101010001 100111 1101010101 010111 1101010001 111101 0011000111 110101 01000100111 011101 1101011101 111101 11011010101 110111 1101011101 010111 0100111011 010101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 25

Repeated words/phrases

of

Anaphora

the