Analysis of The Storm
Frederick George Scott 1861 (Montreal, Quebec) – 1944 (Quebec City, Quebec)
O GRIP the earth, ye forest trees,
Grip well the earth to-night,
The Storm-God rides across the seas
To greet the morning light.
All clouds that wander through the skies
Are tangled in his net,
The frightened stars have shut their eyes,
The breakers fume and fret.
The birds that cheer the woods all day
Now tremble in their nests,
The giant branches round them sway,
The wild wind never rests.
The squirrel and the cunning fox
Have hurried to their holes,
Far off, like distant earthquake shocks,
The muffled thunder rolls.
In scores of hidden woodland dells,
Where no rough winds can harm,
The timid wild-flowers toss their bells
In reasonless alarm.
Only the mountains rear their forms,
Silent and grim and bold;
To them the voices of the storms
Are as a tale re-told.
They saw the stars in heaven hung,
They heard the great Sea's birth,
They know the ancient pain that wrung
The entrails of the Earth.
Sprung from great Nature's royal lines,
They share her deep repose,–
Their rugged shoulders robed in pines,
Their foreheads crowned with snows.
But now there comes a lightning flash,
And now on hill and plain
The charging clouds in fury dash,
And blind the world with rain.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH AIXI JKJK LMLM NONO PQPQ |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11011101 110111 01110101 110101 11110101 110011 01011111 010101 01110111 110011 01010111 011101 01000101 110111 1111011 010101 0111011 111111 010110111 0101 10010111 100101 11010101 110111 11010101 110111 11010111 010101 11110101 110101 11010101 11111 11110101 011101 01010101 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,154 |
Words | 211 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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