Analysis of A Day Off
Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874 (New London, Prince Edward Island) – 1942 (Toronto)
Let us put awhile away
All the cares of work-a-day,
For a golden time forget,
Task and worry, toil and fret,
Let us take a day to dream
In the meadow by the stream.
We may lie in grasses cool
Fringing a pellucid pool,
We may learn the gay brook-runes
Sung on amber afternoons,
And the keen wind-rhyme that fills
Mossy hollows of the hills.
Where the wild-wood whisper stirs
We may talk with lisping firs,
We may gather honeyed blooms
In the dappled forest glooms,
We may eat of berries red
O'er the emerald upland spread.
We may linger as we will
In the sunset valleys still,
Till the gypsy shadows creep
From the starlit land of sleep,
And the mist of evening gray
Girdles round our pilgrim way.
We may bring to work again
Courage from the tasselled glen,
Bring a strength unfailing won
From the paths of cloud and sun,
And the wholesome zest that springs
From all happy, growing things.
Scheme | AABBCC DDEEFF GGXEHH IIJJAA KKLLMM |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (27%) |
Metre | 1110101 1011101 1010101 1010101 1110111 001101 1110101 1011 1110111 111001 0011111 110101 1011101 111111 111011 001101 1111101 10010101 1110111 001101 101011 1010111 0011101 1110101 1111101 101011 1010101 1011101 0010111 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 896 |
Words | 166 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 16, 2023
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