Analysis of Last Hill in a Vista
Louise Bogan 1897 (Livermore Falls) – 1970 (New York City)
Come, let us tell the weeds in ditches
How we are poor, who once had riches,
And lie out in the sparse and sodden
Pastures that the cows have trodden,
The while an autumn night seals down
The comforts of the wooden town.
Come, let us counsel some cold stranger
How we sought safety, but loved danger.
So, with stiff walls about us, we
Chose this more fragile boundary:
Hills, where light poplars, the firm oak,
Loosen into a little smoke.
Scheme | AABBCC DDEEFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101010 111111110 011001010 10101110 01110111 01010101 111101110 111101110 11110111 11110100 1111011 10010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 435 |
Words | 83 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 172 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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