Analysis of The sleeping giant (thunder bay, lake superior)
Emily Pauline Johnson 1861 – 1913
When did you sink to your dreamless sleep
Out there in your thunder bed?
Where the tempests sweep,
And the waters leap,
And the storms rage overhead.
Were you lying there on your couch alone
Ere Egypt and Rome were born?
Ere the Age of Stone,
Or the world had known
The Man with the Crown of Thorn.
The winds screech down from the open west,
And the thunders beat and break
On the amethyst
Of your rugged breast,--
But you never arise or wake.
You have locked your past, and you keep the key
In your heart 'neath the westing sun,
Where the mighty sea
And its shores will be
Storm-swept till the world is done.
Scheme | ABAAB CDCCD EFXEF GHGGH |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (45%) |
Metre | 11111111 1101101 1011 00101 0011101 0110111101 1100101 10111 10111 0110111 011110101 0010101 10100 11101 11100111 1111101101 0111011 10101 01111 1110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 625 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 119 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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