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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