Analysis of A Sweet Landscape

James Montgomery 1771 (Irvine) – 1854



Sweet was the scene! apart the cedars stood.
A sunny islet open'd in the wood;
With vernal tints the wild-brier as thicket glows,
For here the desert flourish'd as the rose;
From sapling trees with lucid foliage crown'd,
Gay lights and shadows twinkled on the ground:
Up the tall stems luxuriant creepers run
To hang their silver blossoms in the sun;
Deep velvet verdure clad the turf beneath,
Where trodden flowers their richest odours breathe;
O'er all, the bees with murmuring music flew
From bell to bell, to sip the treasured dew;
Whilst insect myriads in their solar gleams,
Glanced to and fro, like intermingling beams;
So fresh, so pure, the woods, the sky, the air,
It seem'd a place where angels might repair,
And tune their harps beneath those tranquil shades,
To morning songs or moonlight serenades!


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Poetic Form
Metre 1101010101 0101010001 110101101101 1101010101 1101110101 110110101 1011010011 1111010001 110110101 1101011011 101011100101 1111110101 11101101 1101101001 1111010101 1101110101 0111011101 1101111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 805
Words 140
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 645
Words per stanza (avg) 138
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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James Montgomery

The Very Reverend James Francis Montgomery was an Anglican priest in the second half of the 19th century He studied for the bar before being ordained after a period of study at Durham University, and was a Curate at Puddletown before Edinburgh incumbencies. more…

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