This is an analysis of Voices Of The Night : The Beleaguered City by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
I have read, in some old, marvellous tale,
Some legend strange and vague,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd deDe fgfg afaf fdfd eaea chch deDe fifi XjajXfdfd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1110111001 110111 101110101 0100101 01010101 0011101 11101101 010001 11011101 010111 10010011 010101 11011111 111101 01110101 110101 11010101 010101 01010111 10011 10110111 010101 110100101 010111 11100100101 111101 1110010111 0100101 01011101 010101 01011111 010101 01011101 010101 10010011 10100101 11011101 0010001 11010101 1010011 110101110 100101 01110101 011101 10110101 010101 11010101 110111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 48
Anaphora
no, that, the
