Analysis of A Day in the Open
Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874 (New London, Prince Edward Island) – 1942 (Toronto)
Ho, a day
Whereon we may up and away,
With a fetterless wind that is out on the downs,
And there piping a call to the fallow and shore,
Where the sea evermore
Surgeth over the gray reef, and drowns
The fierce rocks with white foam;
It is ours with untired feet to roam
Where the pines in green gloom of wide vales make their murmuring home,
Or the pools that the sunlight hath kissed
Mirror back a blue sky that is winnowed of cloud and of mist!
Ho, a day
Whereon we may up and away
Through the orient distances hazy and pied,
Hand in hand with the gypsying breezes that blow
Here and there, to and fro,
O'er the meadows all rosy and wide,
Where a lyric of flowers
Is sweet-sung to the frolicking hours,
And the merry buds letter the foot-steps of tip-toeing showers;
We may climb where the steep is beset
With a turbulent waterfall, loving to clamor and fret!
Ho, a day
Whereon we may up and away
To the year that is holding her cup of wild wine;
If we drink we shall be as the gods of the wold
In the blithe days of old
Elate with a laughter divine;
Yea, and then we shall know
The rare magic of solitude so
We shall nevermore wish its delight and its dreams to forego,
And our blood will upstir and upleap
With a fellowship splendid, a gladness impassioned and deep!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101 1111001 1011111101 01100110101 10110 11001101 011111 111011111 101011111111001 10110111 10101111111011 101 1111001 10101001001 1011011011 101101 100111001 1010110 1111010010 0010110011111010 111101101 10100101011001 101 1111001 101111001111 111111101101 001111 01101001 101111 01101101 11101101011101 01011101 1010100101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,247 |
Words | 248 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 11, 11 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 332 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 82 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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