Analysis of Elliot's Oak
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
Thou ancient oak! whose myriad leaves are loud
With sounds of unintelligible speech,
Sounds as of surges on a shingly beach,
Or multitudinous murmurs of a crowd;
With some mysterious gift of tongues endowed,
Thou speakest a different dialect to each;
To me a language that no man can teach,
Of a lost race, long vanished like a cloud.
For underneath thy shade, in days remote,
Seated like Abraham at eventide
Beneath the oaks of Mamre, the unknown
Apostle of the Indians, Eliot, wrote
His Bible in a language that hath died
And is forgotten, save by thee alone.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011100111 111010001 111101011 1110101 11010011101 1101001011 1101011111 1011110101 101110101 1011011 010111001 010101001001 1100010111 0101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 556 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 447 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 99 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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