Analysis of The Clearing
Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts 1860 (Douglas) – 1943 (Toronto)
Stumps, and harsh rocks, and prostrate trunks all charred,
And gnarled roots naked to the sun and rain,--
They seem in their grim stillness to complain,
And be their paint the evening peace is jarred.
These ragged acres fire and the axe have scarred,
And many summers not assuaged their pain.
In vain the pink and saffron light, in vain
The pale dew on the hillocks stripped and marred!
But here and there the waste is touched with cheer
Where spreads the fire-weed like a crimson flood
And venturous plumes of golden-rod appear;
And round the blackened fence the great boughs lean
With comfort; and across the solitude
The hermit's holy transport peals serene.
Scheme | ABBAABBA CXCDXD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011010111 0111010101 1101110101 0111010111 110101000111 0101010111 0101010101 011101101 1101011111 11010110101 011110101 0101010111 110001010 011001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 664 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 265 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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