Analysis of An Old Lesson From The Fields
Archibald Lampman 1861 (Upper Canada) – 1899 (Ottawa, Canada)
Even as I watched the daylight how it sped
From noon till eve, and saw the light wind pass
In long pale waves across the flashing grass,
And heard through all my dreams, wherever led,
The thin cicada singing overhead,
I felt what joyance all this nature has,
And saw myself made clear as in a glass,
How that my soul was for the most part dead.
Oh, light, I cried, and, heaven, with all your blue,
Oh, earth, with all your sunny fruitfulness,
And ye, tall lillies, of the wind-vexed field,
What power and beauty life indeed might yield,
Could we but cast away its conscious stress,
Simple of heart, becoming even as you.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011101111 1111010111 0111010101 0111110101 0101010101 111111101 011111001 1111110111 11110101111 11111101 011110111 11001010111 1111011101 10110101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 615 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 241 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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