Analysis of Evening

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



From upland slopes I see the cows file by,
  Lowing, great-chested, down the homeward trail,
  By dusking fields and meadows shining pale
  With moon-tipped dandelions. Flickering high,
  A peevish night-hawk in the western sky
  Beats up into the lucent solitudes,
  Or drops with griding wing. The stilly woods
  Grow dark and deep, and gloom mysteriously.
  Cool night winds creep, and whisper in mine ear.
  The homely cricket gossips at my feet.
  From far-off pools and wastes of reeds I hear,
  Clear and soft-piped, the chanting frogs break sweet
  In full Pandean chorus. One by one
  Shine out the stars, and the great night comes on.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1101110111 1011010101 11101101 1111001001 0101100101 11010101 11111011 1101011000 1111010011 0101010111 1111011111 1011010111 01110111 1101001111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 639
Words 107
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 491
Words per stanza (avg) 105
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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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