Analysis of The Seeker
Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874 (New London, Prince Edward Island) – 1942 (Toronto)
I sought for my happiness over the world,
Oh, eager and far was my quest;
I sought it on mountain and desert and sea,
I asked it of east and of west.
I sought it in beautiful cities of men,
On shores that were sunny and blue,
And laughter and lyric and pleasure were mine
In palaces wondrous to view;
Oh, the world gave me much to my plea and my prayer
But never I found aught of happiness there!
Then I took my way back to a valley of old
And a little brown house by a rill,
Where the winds piped all day in the sentinel firs
That guarded the crest of the hill;
I went by the path that my childhood had known
Through the bracken and up by the glen,
And I paused at the gate of the garden to drink
The scent of sweet-briar again;
The homelight shone out through the dusk as of yore
And happiness waited for me at the door!
Scheme | XAXABCXCDD XEXEXBXBFF |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (25%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11111001001 11001111 11111001001 11111011 11101001011 11101001 01001001001 01001011 101111111011 11011111001 111111101011 001011101 101111001001 11001101 1110111111 101001101 011101101011 01111001 0111101111 01001011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 812 |
Words | 170 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 320 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 84 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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