Analysis of March

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



Over the dripping roofs and sunk snow-barrows,
The bells are ringing loud and strangely near,
The shout of children dins upon mine ear
Shrilly, and like a flight of silvery arrows
Showers the sweet gossip of the British sparrows,
Gathered in noisy knots of one or two,
To joke and chatter just as mortals do
Over the days long tale of joys and sorrows;

Talk before bed-time of bold deeds together,
Of thefts and fights, of hard-times and the weather,
Till sleep disarm them, to each little brain
Bringing tucked wings and many a blissful dream,
Visions of wind and sun, of field and stream,
And busy barn-yards with their scattered grain.


Scheme AXXAABBA CCDEED
Poetic Form
Metre 10010101110 0111010101 0111010111 10101110010 100110101010 1001011111 1101011101 10011111010 10111111010 11011110010 1101111101 10110100101 1011011101 0101111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 633
Words 114
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 6
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 255
Words per stanza (avg) 56
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 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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