Analysis of The City
Archibald Lampman 1861 (Upper Canada) – 1899 (Ottawa, Canada)
Beyond the dusky corn-fields, toward the west,
Dotted with farms, beyond the shallow stream,
Through drifts of elm with quiet peep and gleam,
Curved white and slender as a lady's wrist,
Faint and far off out of the autumn mist,
Even as a pointed jewel softly set
In clouds of colour warmer, deeper yet,
Crimson and gold and rose and amethyst,
Toward dayset, where the journeying sun grown old
Hangs lowly westward darker now than gold,
With the soft sun-touch of the yellowing hours
Made lovelier, I see with dreaming eyes,
Even as a dream out of a dream, arise
The bell-tongued city with its glorious towers.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101110101 1011010101 1111110101 1101010101 1011110101 10101010101 011110101 1001010100 01110100111 1101010111 101111010010 11111101 10101110101 011101110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 604 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 483 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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