Analysis of The Islet And The Palm
Archibald Lampman 1861 (Upper Canada) – 1899 (Ottawa, Canada)
O gentle sister spirit, when you smile
My soul is like a lonely coral isle,
An islet shadowed by a single palm,
Ringed round with reef and foam, but inly calm.
And all day long I listen to the speech
Of wind and water on my charmed beach:
I see far off beyond mine outer shore
The ocean flash, and hear his harmless roar.
And in the night-time when the glorious sun,
With all his life and all his light, is done,
The wind still murmurs in my slender tree,
And shakes the moonlight on the silver sea.
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1101010111 1111010101 1101010101 111101111 0111110101 110101111 1111011101 0101011101 00011101001 1111011111 0111001101 010110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 496 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 129 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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