Analysis of The Pike
Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)
In the brown water,
Thick and silver-sheened in the sunshine,
Liquid and cool in the shade of the reeds,
A pike dozed.
Lost among the shadows of stems
He lay unnoticed.
Suddenly he flicked his tail,
And a green-and-copper brightness
Ran under the water.
Out from under the reeds
Came the olive-green light,
And orange flashed up
Through the sun-thickened water.
So the fish passed across the pool,
Green and copper,
A darkness and a gleam,
And the blurred reflections of the willows on the opposite bank
Received it.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 00110 10101001 1001001101 011 1010111 11010 1001111 00101010 110010 111001 101011 01011 1011010 10110101 1010 010001 001010101101001 011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 507 |
Words | 91 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 205 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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