Analysis of The Onondaga Madonna
Duncan Campbell Scott 1862 (Ottawa) – 1947
She stands full-throated and with careless pose,
This woman of a weird and waning race,
The tragic savage lurking in her face,
Where all her pagan passion burns and glows;
Her blood is mingled with her ancient foes,
And thrills with war and wildness in her veins;
Her rebel lips are dabbled with the stains
Of feuds and forays and her father's woes.
And closer in the shawl about her breast,
The latest promise of her nation's doom,
Paler than she her baby clings and lies,
The primal warrior gleaming from his eyes;
He sulks, and burdened with his infant gloom,
He draws his heavy brows and will not rest.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111001101 1101010101 0101010001 1101010101 0111010101 0111010001 0101110101 1101000101 0100010101 0101010101 111010101 01010010111 1101011101 1111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 601 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 240 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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