Analysis of In November (1)

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



The leafless forests slowly yield
    To the thick-driving snow. A little while
    And night shall darken down. In shouting file
  The woodmen's carts go by me homeward-wheeled,
  Past the thin fading stubbles, half concealed,
    Now golden-gray, sowed softly through with snow,
    Where the last ploughman follows still his row,
  Turning black furrows through the whitening field.
  Far off the village lamps begin to gleam,
    Fast drives the snow, and no man comes this way;
      The hills grow wintry white, and bleak winds moan
      About the naked uplands. I alone
    Am neither sad, nor shelterless, nor gray,
  Wrapped round with thought, content to watch and dream.


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Poetic Form
Metre 01010101 1011010101 0111010101 011111101 101101101 1101110111 101110111 1011101001 1101010111 1101011111 0111010111 0101010101 11011111 1111101101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 678
Words 107
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 509
Words per stanza (avg) 105
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 17, 2023

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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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