Analysis of Ultima Thule: The Poet And His Songs
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
As the birds come in the Spring,
We know not from where;
As the stars come at evening
From depths of the air;
As the rain comes from the cloud,
And the brook from the ground;
As suddenly, low or loud,
Out of silence a sound;
As the grape comes to the vine,
The fruit to the tree;
As the wind comes to the pine,
And the tide to the sea;
As come the white sails of ships
O'er the ocean's verge;
As comes the smile to the lips,
The foam to the surge;
So come to the Poet his songs,
All hitherward blown
From the misty realm, that belongs
To the vast Unknown.
His, and not his, are the lays
He sings; and their fame
Is his, and not his; and the praise
And the pride of a name.
For voices pursue him by day,
And haunt him by night,
And he listens, and needs must obey,
When the Angel says: 'Write!'
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
Metre | 1011001 11111 1011110 11101 1011101 001101 1100111 111001 1011101 01101 1011101 001101 1101111 100101 1101101 01101 11101011 111 10101101 10101 1011101 11011 11011001 001101 11001111 01111 011001101 101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 780 |
Words | 166 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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