Analysis of The lost lagoon
Emily Pauline Johnson 1861 – 1913
It is dusk on the Lost Lagoon,
And we two dreaming the dusk away,
Beneath the drift of a twilight grey,
Beneath the drowse of an ending day,
And the curve of a golden moon.
It is dark in the Lost Lagoon,
And gone are the depths of haunting blue,
The grouping gulls, and the old canoe,
The singing firs, and the dusk and--you,
And gone is the golden moon.
O! lure of the Lost Lagoon,--
I dream to-night that my paddle blurs
The purple shade where the seaweed stirs,
I hear the call of the singing firs
In the hush of the golden moon.
Scheme | ABBBA ACCCA ADDDA |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11110101 011100101 01011011 010111101 00110101 11100101 011011101 010100101 010100101 0110101 1110101 111111101 01011011 110110101 00110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 540 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 136 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
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