Analysis of The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
The tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
Along the sea-sands damp and brown
The traveller hastens toward the town,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
Darkness settles on roofs and walls,
But the sea, the sea in the darkness calls;
The little waves, with their soft, white hands,
Efface the footprints in the sands,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls
Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;
The day returns, but nevermore
Returns the traveller to the shore,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
Scheme | aabbA aaccA aaddA |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 0110011 011011 01011101 0100100101 00110011 10101101 1010100101 010111111 0101001 00110011 010101011 10110101 0101110 010100101 00110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 579 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 149 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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