Analysis of In The Harbour: Memories
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
Oft I remember those I have known
In other days, to whom my heart was lead
As by a magnet, and who are not dead,
But absent, and their memories overgrown
With other thoughts and troubles of my own,
As graves with grasses are, and at their head
The stone with moss and lichens so o'er spread,
Nothing is legible but the name alone.
And is it so with them? After long years.
Do they remember me in the same way,
And is the memory pleasant as to me?
I fear to ask; yet wherefore are my fears?
Pleasures, like flowers, may wither and decay,
And yet the root perennial may be.
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Metre | 110101111 0101111111 1101001111 1100110001 1101010111 1111010111 01110101101 10110010101 0111111011 1101010011 01010010111 111111111 10110110001 0101010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 566 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 441 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 112 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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