Analysis of Unrest

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



All day upon the garden bright
The suns shines strong,
But in my heart there is no light,
Or any song.

Voices of merry life go by,
Adown the street;
But I am weary of the cry
And drift of feet.

With all dear things that ought to please
The hours are blessed,
And yet my soul is ill at ease,
And cannot rest.

Strange spirit, leave me not too long,
Nor stint to give,
For if my soul have no sweet song,
It cannot live.


Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF BXBX
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 11010101 0111 10111111 1101 10110111 101 11110101 0111 11111111 01011 01111111 0101 11011111 1111 11111111 1101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 409
Words 88
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 79
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 11, 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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