Analysis of From Duncan Campbell Scott
AT THE CEDARS
Duncan Campbell Scott
You had two girls -- Baptiste --
One is Virginie --
Hold hard -- Baptiste!
Listen to me.
The whole drive was jammed
In that bend at the Cedars,
The rapids were dammed
With the logs tight rammed
And crammed; you might know
The Devil had clinched them below.
We worked three days -- not a budge,
'She's as tight as a wedge, on the ledge,'
Says our foreman;
'Mon Dieu! boys, look here,
We must get this thing clear.'
He cursed at the men
And we went for it then;
With our cant-dogs arow,
We just gave he-yo-ho;
When she gave a big shove
From above.
The gang yelled and tore
For the shore,
The logs gave a grind
Like a wolf's jaws behind,
And as quick as a flash,
With a shove and a crash,
They were down in a mash,
But I and ten more,
All but Isaàc Dufour,
Were ashore.
He leaped on a log in the front of the rush,
And shot out from the bind
While the jam roared behind;
As he floated along
He balanced his pole
And tossed us a song.
But just as we cheered,
Up darted a log from the bottom,
Leaped thirty feet square and fair,
And came down on his own.
He went up like a block
With the shock,
And when he was there
In the air,
Kissed his hand
To the land;
When he dropped
My heart stopped,
For the first logs had caught him
And crushed him;
When he rose in his place
There was blood on his face.
Scheme | AX BCBX DADDCE XXCFXCCFEGG HHIIJJJHXH XIIKXKXXLC MMLLNNOOPPQQ |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (33%) |
Metre | 1010 10101 111101 111 1101 1011 01111 0111010 01001 10111 01111 01011101 1111101 111101101 11010 11111 111111 11101 011111 110111 111111 111011 101 01101 101 01101 101101 011101 101001 101001 11011 1110101 001 11101001101 011101 101101 111001 11011 01101 11111 110011010 1101101 011111 111101 101 01111 001 111 101 111 111 1011111 011 111011 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,336 |
Words | 310 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 6, 11, 10, 10, 12 |
Lines Amount | 55 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 143 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
About this poem
In the group called The Confederation Poets (Lampman, Carmen, Scott and Roberts).
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Written on December 13, 2022
Submitted by dougb.72572 on December 13, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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