Analysis of In Beechwood Cemetery
Archibald Lampman 1861 (Upper Canada) – 1899 (Ottawa, Canada)
Here the dead sleep--the quiet dead. No sound
Disturbs them ever, and no storm dismays.
Winter mid snow caresses the tired ground,
And the wind roars about the woodland ways.
Springtime and summer and red autumn pass,
With leaf and bloom and pipe of wind and bird,
And the old earth puts forth her tender grass,
By them unfelt, unheeded and unheard.
Our centuries to them are but as strokes
In the dim gamut of some far-off chime.
Unaltering rest their perfect being cloaks--
A thing too vast to hear or feel or see--
Children of Silence and Eternity,
They know no season but the end of time.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011010111 0111001101 10110100101 001101011 101001101 1101011101 0011110101 111010001 10100111111 0011011111 11101101 0111111111 1011000100 1111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 613 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 465 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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