Analysis of Lake Louise

Harriet Monroe 1860 (Chicago) – 1936 (Arequipa)



Bluer than Helen's eyes she lies
Under the blue cloud-drifting skies;
A daughter fair of light and air
Dropped among warrior mountains there.

White glaciers kiss her feet so fleet—
Oh fugitive, too rare and sweet!
Will she not fling them off that cling,
And rise, a bluebird on the wing?

Will she not rise and stray away,
A blue gleam on the brow of day?
Look—still she stays, and bright, snow-white,
The glaciers guard her day and night!


Scheme AABB CCDD EEFF
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 10110111 10011101 01011101 101100101 11010111 11001101 11111111 0101101 11110101 01110111 11110111 01010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 446
Words 81
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 114
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Harriet Monroe

Harriet Monroe was an American editor, scholar, literary critic, poet and patron of the arts. more…

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