Analysis of The Potato Harvest

Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts 1860 (Douglas) – 1943 (Toronto)



A high bare field, brown from the plough, and borne
     Aslant from sunset; amber wastes of sky
     Washing the ridge; a clamour of crows that fly
   In from the wide flats where the spent tides mourn
   To yon their rocking roosts in pines wind-torn;
     A line of grey snake-fence, that zigzags by
     A pond and cattle; from the homestead nigh
   The long deep summonings of the supper horn.
   Black on the ridge, against that lonely flush,
    A cart, and stoop-necked oxen; ranged beside
      Some barrels; and the day-worn harvest-folk,
  Here emptying their baskets, jar the hush
    With hollow thunders. Down the dusk hillside
      Lumbers the wain; and day fades out like smoke.


Scheme ABBAABBACDECDE
Poetic Form
Metre 0111110101 11110111 1001011111 0101110111 1111010111 0111111101 010101011 011110101 1101011101 0101110101 1100011101 1100110101 110101011 101011111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 703
Words 114
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 507
Words per stanza (avg) 112
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (January 10, 1860 – November 26, 1943) was a Canadian poet and prose writer. He was one of the first Canadian authors to be internationally known. more…

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