Analysis of i8 The Kuan's Canticles
Robert Kirkland Kernighan 1854 (Canada) – 1926
I hush the wail along my trail
Past hamlet, home and hollow,
While on I go with noiseless flow
And robin red-breasts follow.
And like a psalm, benign and calm,
I blight the brow of winter ;
I snap the chains that hold the reins
The fields of ice I splinter ;
And like the tide I run and ride,
The bated winds I swallow ;
Triumphant still past rock and rill,
And robin red-breasts follow.
A wing of light from night to night
My perfumed chariot passes,
And I can hear in meadows clear
The whispering of the grasses ;
With joyous face I onward race
Past hopeless height and hollow,
While swift and strong with simple song
My robin red-breasts follow.
The north wind bleeds the rustling reeds
The happy news is telling,
And I can hear in forests near
The juicy leaf -buds swelling ;
I onward rush without the thrush,
The red bird or the swallow,
You need n't mind, for close behind
My robin red-breasts follow.
Scheme | xa aA x bx bx ax A x cd cx ax A x ed ex ax A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111 1101010 1111111 0101110 01010101 1101110 11011101 0111110 01011101 0101110 01011101 0101110 01111111 10110010 0111011 01001010 11011101 1101010 11011101 1101110 01110101 0101110 01110101 0101110 11010101 0111010 111111101 1101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 915 |
Words | 168 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 17 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 42 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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