Analysis of A Niagara Landscape

Archibald Lampman 1861 (Upper Canada) – 1899 (Ottawa, Canada)



Heavy with haze that merges and melts free
    Into the measureless depth on either hand,
    The full day rests upon the luminous land
  In one long noon of golden reverie.
  Now hath the harvest come and gone with glee.
    The shaven fields stretch smooth and clean away,
    Purple and green, and yellow, and soft gray,
  Chequered with orchards. Farther still I see
  Towns and dim villages, whose roof-tops fill
   The distant mist, yet scarcely catch the view.
 Thorold set sultry on its plateau'd hill,
     And far to westward, where yon pointed towers
   Rise faint and ruddy from the vaporous blue,
     Saint Catharines, city of the host of flowers.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1011110011 010111101 01110101001 0111110100 1101010111 0101110101 1001010011 111010111 1011001111 0101110101 111011011 01110111010 110101011 11010101110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 656
Words 110
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 495
Words per stanza (avg) 108
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Archibald Lampman

Archibald Lampman FRSC was a Canadian poet. "He has been described as 'the Canadian Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent of the Canadian school of nature poets." The Canadian Encyclopedia says that he is "generally considered the finest of Canada's late 19th-century poets in English." Lampman is classed as one of Canada's Confederation Poets, a group which also includes Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, and Duncan Campbell Scott. more…

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