Analysis of The Palm And The Pine
Sidney Lanier 1842 (Macon) – 1881 (Lynn)
From the German of Heine.
In the far North stands a Pine-tree, lone,
Upon a wintry height;
It sleeps: around it snows have thrown
A covering of white.
It dreams forever of a Palm
That, far i' the Morning-land,
Stands silent in a most sad calm
Midst of the burning sand.
| Scheme | X ABAB CDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101011 001110111 010101 11011111 010011 11010101 1110101 11000111 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 274 |
| Words | 53 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 69 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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