Analysis of In A Northern Wood
Katharine Lee Bates 1859 (Falmouth) – 1929 (Wellesley)
FRAGRANT are the cedar-boughs stretching green and level,
Feasting-halls where waxwings flit at their spicy revel,
But O the pine, the questing pine, that flings its arms on high
To search the secret of the sun and escalade the sky!
Rueful hemlocks, gaunt and old, with boughs a-droop, despairing,
Clutch for touch of mother-earth; the while the pine is daring
To rock the stars amid its cones and lull them with its croon,
And snare the silver eagle that is nested in the moon.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101101010 101111111010 1101011111111 1101010100101 1011011101010 11111010101110 11010111011111 01010101110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 479 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 47 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 379 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 84 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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