Analysis of At crow's nest pass
Emily Pauline Johnson 1861 – 1913
At Crow's Nest Pass the mountains rend
Themselves apart, the rivers wend
A lawless course about their feet,
And breaking into torrents beat
In useless fury where they blend
At Crow's Nest Pass.
The nesting eagle, wise, discreet,
Wings up the gorge's lone retreat
And makes some barren crag her friend
At Crow's Nest Pass.
Uncertain clouds, half-high, suspend
Their shifting vapours, and contend
With rocks that suffer not defeat;
And snows, and suns, and mad winds meet
To battle where the cliffs defend
At Crow's Nest Pass.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 01010101 01010111 01001101 01010111 1111 01010101 1101101 01110101 1111 01011101 1101001 11110101 01010111 11010101 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 545 |
Words | 90 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 139 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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