Analysis of The Bird and the Hour
Archibald Lampman 1861 (Upper Canada) – 1899 (Ottawa, Canada)
The sun looks over a little hill
And floods the valley with gold-
A torrent of gold;
And the hither field is green and still;
Beyond it a cloud outrolled,
Is glowing molten and bright;
And soon the hill, and the valley and all,
With a quiet fall,
Shall be gathered into the night.
And yet a moment more,
Out of the silent wood,
As if from the closing door
Of another world and another lovelier mood,
Hear'st thou the hermit pour-
So sweet! so magical!-
His golden music, ghostly beautiful.
Scheme | ABBABCDDCEFEGEHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011100101 0101011 01011 001011101 011011 1101001 0101001001 10101 11100101 010101 110101 1110101 10101001011 1110101 111100 1101010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 482 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 380 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 91 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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