Ultima Thule: The Windmill by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Ultima Thule: The Windmill that begins with:

Behold! a giant am I!
Aloft here in my tower,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbab caaca Xcccc deede fccfc ghhgh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101011 0110110 011011010 01101101 1100010 1111001 0010111 0101000 11100111 11100111 110101 1100101 0101101 10101011 101101 111011 01110101 10101011 110101 1011101 1111011 1100101 111001 1111111 111101 1111111 110101 1101001 1111111 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, in, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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