Analysis of Winter Uplands
Archibald Lampman 1861 (Upper Canada) – 1899 (Ottawa, Canada)
The frost that stings like fire upon my cheek,
The loneliness of this forsaken ground,
The long white drift upon whose powdered peak
I sit in the great silence as one bound;
The rippled sheet of snow where the wind blew
Across the open fields for miles ahead;
The far-off city towered and roofed in blue
A tender line upon the western red;
The stars that singly, then in flocks appear,
Like jets of silver from the violet dome,
So wonderful, so many and so near,
And then the golden moon to light me home--
The crunching snowshoes and the stinging air,
And silence, frost, and beauty everywhere.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGG |
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Poetic Form | Shakespearean sonnet |
Metre | 01111100111 0100110101 0111011101 1100110111 0101111011 0101011101 01110100101 0101010101 0111010101 11110101001 1100110011 0101011111 010100101 010101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 628 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 471 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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