Analysis of The Forest Path
Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874 (New London, Prince Edward Island) – 1942 (Toronto)
Oh, the charm of idle dreaming
Where the dappled shadows dance,
All the leafy aisles are teeming
With the lure of old romance!
Down into the forest dipping,
Deep and deeper as we go,
One might fancy dryads slipping
Where the white-stemmed birches grow.
Lurking gnome and freakish fairy
In the fern may peep and hide . . .
Sure their whispers low and airy
Ring us in on every side!
Saw you where the pines are rocking
Nymph's white shoulder as she ran?
Lo, that music faint and mocking,
Is it not a pipe of Pan?
Hear you that elusive laughter
Of the hidden waterfall?
Nay, a satyr speeding after
Ivy-crowned bacchanal.
Far and farther as we wander
Sweeter shall our roaming be,
Come, for dim and winsome yonder
Lies the path to Arcady!
Scheme | ABAB ACAC DEDE AFAF GXGX GDGE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 10111010 10111 10101110 1011101 10101010 1010111 1110110 101111 1010110 0011101 11101010 11011001 11101110 1110111 11101010 1110111 11101010 101010 1011010 101010 10101110 10110101 11101010 10111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 725 |
Words | 134 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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