Analysis of To My Brooklet. (From The French Of Ducis)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
Thou brooklet, all unknown to song,
Hid in the covert of the wood!
Ah, yes, like thee I fear the throng,
Like thee I love the solitude.
O brooklet, let my sorrows past
Lie all forgotten in their graves,
Till in my thoughts remain at last
Only thy peace, thy flowers, thy waves.
The lily by thy margin waits;--
The nightingale, the marguerite;
In shadow here he meditates
His nest, his love, his music sweet.
Near thee the self-collected soul
Knows naught of error or of crime;
Thy waters, murmuring as they roll,
Transform his musings into rhyme.
Ah, when, on bright autumnal eves,
Pursuing still thy course, shall I
Lisp the soft shudder of the leaves,
And hear the lapwing's plaintive cry?
Scheme | AXAX BCBC XDCD EFEF GHGH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (35%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1110111 10010101 11111101 1111010 1111101 11010011 10110111 101111011 01011101 0100001 01111 11111101 11010101 11110111 110100111 01110011 11110101 01011111 10110101 0101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 699 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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