Analysis of Off Riviere Du Loup
Duncan Campbell Scott 1862 (Ottawa) – 1947
O ship incoming from the sea
With all your cloudy tower of sail,
Dashing the water to the lee,
And leaning grandly to the gale,
The sunset pageant in the west
Has filled your canvas curves with rose,
And jeweled every toppling crest
That crashes into silver snows!
You know the joy of coming home,
After long leagues to France or Spain
You feel the clear Canadian foam
And the gulf water heave again.
Between these somber purple hills
That cool the sunset's molten bars,
You will go on as the wind wills,
Beneath the river's roof of stars.
You will toss onward toward the lights
That spangle over the lonely pier,
By hamlets glimmering on the heights,
By level islands black and clear.
You will go on beyond the tide,
Through brimming plains of olive sedge,
Through paler shadows light and wide,
The rapids piled along the ledge.
At evening off some reedy bay
You will swing slowly on your chain,
And catch the scent of dewy hay,
Soft blowing from the pleasant plain.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEX GHGH IJIJ KLKL MFMF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (86%) |
Metre | 1110101 111101011 10010101 01010101 0110001 11110111 011001001 11001101 11011101 10111111 110101001 00110101 01110101 1101101 11111011 01010111 111100101 110100101 110100101 11010101 11110101 11011101 111101 01010101 11011101 11110111 01011101 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 948 |
Words | 177 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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