Analysis of Good Speech
Archibald Lampman 1861 (Upper Canada) – 1899 (Ottawa, Canada)
Think not, because thine inmost heart means well,
Thou hast the freedom of rude speech: sweet words
Are like the voices of returning birds
Filling the soul with summer, or a bell
That calls the weary and the sick to prayer.
Even as thy thought, so let thy speech be fair.
| Scheme | ABBACC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Heroic Sestet |
| Metre | 110111111 1101011111 1101010101 1001110101 1101000111 10111111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 274 |
| Words | 53 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 214 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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