Analysis of A Wraith In The Mist. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fifth)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
On the green little isle of Inchkenneth,
Who is it that walks by the shore,
So gay with his Highland blue bonnet,
So brave with his targe and claymore?
His form is the form of a giant,
But his face wears an aspect of pain;
Can this be the Laird of Inchkenneth?
Can this be Sir Allan McLean?
Ah, no! It is only the Rambler,
The Idler, who lives in Bolt Court,
And who says, were he Laird of Inchkenneth,
He would wall himself round with a fort.
| Scheme | ABXB XXAX XCAC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
| Metre | 10110111 11111101 111110110 1111101 111011010 11111111 1110111 11111001 111110010 010011011 01101111 111011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 442 |
| Words | 90 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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