Analysis of Poem Remembered from Neighbouring Brant County
Harvest Time
Emily Pauline Johnson
Pillowed and hushed on the silent plain,
Wrapped in her mantle of golden grain,
Wearied of pleasuring weeks away,
Summer is lying asleep to-day,—
Where winds come sweet from the wild-rose briers
And the smoke of the far-off prairies fires;
Yellow her hair as the golden rod,
And brown her cheeks as the prairie sod;
Purple her eyes as the mists that dram
At the edge of some laggard sun-drowned stream;
But over their depths the lashes sweep,
For Summer is lying to-day asleep.
The north wind kisses her rosy mouth,
His rival frowns in the far-off south,
And comes caressing her sunburnt cheek,
And Summer awakes for one short week,—
Awakes and gathers her wealth of grain,
Then sleeps and dreams for a year again
Scheme | XX AA BB CC DD XX EE FF GG AX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (25%) |
Metre | 101 1000110 10110101 100101101 1011101 101100111 111110111 00110111010 100110101 010110101 100110111 1011110111 110110101 1101101101 011100101 110100111 01010011 01011111 10100111 110110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 763 |
Words | 156 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 60 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
About this poem
Marvelous thoughts from an Indian, princess
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