Analysis of Out o'Doors

Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874 (New London, Prince Edward Island) – 1942 (Toronto)



There's a gypsy wind across the harvest land,
Let us fare forth with it lightly hand in hand;
Where cloud shadows blow across the sunwarm waste,
And the first red leaves are falling let us haste,
For the waning days are lavish of their stores,
And the joy of life is with us out o' doors!

Let us roam along the ways of golden rod
Over uplands where the spicy bracken nod,
Through the wildwood where the hemlock branches croon
Their rune-chant of elder days across the noon,
For the mellow air its pungency outpours,
And the glory of the year is out o' doors!

There's a great gray sea beyond us calling far,
There's a blue tide curling o'er the harbor bar;
Ho, the breeze that smites us saltly on the lips
Whistles gaily in the sails of outbound ships;
Let us send our thoughts with them to fabled shores,
For the pilgrim mood is on us out o' doors!

Lo! the world's rejoicing in each spirit thrills,
Strength and gladness are to us upon the hills;
We are one with crimson bough and ancient sea,
Holding all the joy of autumn hours in fee,
Hope within us like a questing bird upsoars,
And there's room for song and laughter out o' doors.


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Poetic Form
Metre 10101010101 11111110101 111101011 00111110111 10101110111 00111111111 11101011101 10101010101 101101101 11111010101 10101111 00101011111 10111011101 101110100101 1011111101 1010001111 111101111101 10101111111 10101001101 1011110101 11111010101 101011101001 101110111 01111010111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,133
Words 216
Sentences 6
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6, 6
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 222
Words per stanza (avg) 54
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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