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 |
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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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