Analysis of Ecstasy
Duncan Campbell Scott 1862 (Ottawa) – 1947
The shore-lark soars to his topmost flight,
Sings at the height where morning springs,
What though his voice be lost in the light,
The light comes dropping from his wings.
Mount, my soul, and sing at the height
Of thy clear flight in the light and the air,
Heard or unheard in the night in the light
Sing there! Sing there!
| Scheme | ABAB ACAC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 01111111 11011101 111111001 01110111 11101101 1111001001 1101001001 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 324 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 127 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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