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 |
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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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