Analysis of The Voyageur
Susan Frances Harrison 1859 (Toronto) – 1935 ( Toronto)
LIKE the swarthy son of some tropic shore
He sleeps, with his olive bosom bared,
He sleeps–in his earrings of brassy ore.
Like a tawny tiger whom hot hours bore,
When all night long he has growled and glared
At the swarthy son of some tropic shore,
Like a fierce-eyed blossom with heart of gore
That too long in the sun-flushed fields has flared,
He sleeps–in his earrings of brassy ore,
And his scarlet sash that he gaily wore
To tempt Madelon–who his heart has snared,
Like the swarthy son of some tropic shore.
That dusky form might a queen adore–
Prenez garde, Madelon, for a season spared,
He sleeps–in his earrings of brassy ore.
For a season only. What may be in store
For Madelon? She who has never cared! . . .
Like the swarthy son of some tropic shore
He sleeps–in his earrings of brassy ore.
Scheme | AbA aba abA abA abA abAA |
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Poetic Form | Villanelle (60%) |
Metre | 1010111101 111110101 1101101101 10101011101 111111101 1010111101 1011101111 1110011111 1101101101 0110111101 1100111111 1010111101 11110101 1100110101 1101101101 10101011101 1001111101 1010111101 1101101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 818 |
Words | 148 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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