Analysis of A Summer Day
Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874 (New London, Prince Edward Island) – 1942 (Toronto)
The dawn laughs out on orient hills
And dances with the diamond rills;
The ambrosial wind but faintly stirs
The silken, beaded gossamers;
In the wide valleys, lone and fair,
Lyrics are piped from limpid air,
And, far above, the pine trees free
Voice ancient lore of sky and sea.
Come, let us fill our hearts straightway
With hope and courage of the day.
Noon, hiving sweets of sun and flower,
Has fallen on dreams in wayside bower,
Where bees hold honeyed fellowship
With the ripe blossom of her lip;
All silent are her poppied vales
And all her long Arcadian dales,
Where idleness is gathered up
A magic draught in summer's cup.
Come, let us give ourselves to dreams
By lisping margins of her streams.
Adown the golden sunset way
The evening comes in wimple gray;
By burnished shore and silver lake
Cool winds of ministration wake;
O'er occidental meadows far
There shines the light of moon and star,
And sweet, low-tinkling music rings
About the lips of haunted springs.
In quietude of earth and air
'Tis meet we yield our souls to prayer.
Scheme | AAXABBCCDE FFGGHHIIJJ DEKKLLMMBB |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (33%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01111101 01010101 001011101 010101 00110101 1011111 01010111 11011101 11111011 11010101 11111010 110110110 111110 10110101 1101011 01011001 11001101 01010101 111100111 1110101 101011 0101011 11010101 1110101 1001011 11011101 011100101 01011101 011101 111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,058 |
Words | 190 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 276 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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