Analysis of The Call of the Winds
Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874 (New London, Prince Edward Island) – 1942 (Toronto)
Ho, come out with the wind of spring,
And step it blithely in woodlands waking;
Friend am I of each growing thing
From the gray sod into sunshine breaking;
Mine is the magic of twilights dim,
Of violets blue on the still pool's rim,
Mine is the breath of the blossoms young
Sweetest of fragrances storied or sung
Come, ye earth-children, weary and worn,
I will lead you over the hills of morn.
Ho, come out with the summer wind,
And loiter in meadows of ripening clover,
Where the purple noons are long and kind,
And the great white clouds drift fleecily over.
Mine is immortal minstrelsy,
The fellowship of the rose and bee,
Beguiling laughter of willowed rills,
The rejoicing of pines on inland hills,
Come, ye earth-children, by dale and stream,
I will lead you into the ways of dream.
Ho, when the wind of autumn rings
Through jubilant mornings crisp and golden,
Come where the yellow woodland flings
Its hoarded wealth over by-ways olden.
Mine are the grasses frosted and sere,
That lisp and rustle around the mere,
Mine are the flying racks that dim
The lingering sunset's reddening rim,
Earth-children, come, in the waning year,
I will harp you to laughter and buoyant cheer.
Ho, when the wind of winter blows
Over the uplands and moonlit spaces,
Come ye out to the waste of snows,
To the glimmering fields and the silent places.
I whistle gaily on starry nights
Through the arch of the elfin northern lights,
But in long white valleys I pause to hark
Where the ring of the home-lights gems the dark.
Come, ye earth-children, whose hearts are sad,
I will make you valiant and strong and glad!
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Poetic Form | Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 11110111 011100110 11111101 101101110 11010111 1100110111 110110101 1011001011 111101001 1111100111 11110101 01001110010 101011101 001111110 110101 01010101 01010111 001011111 111101101 1111010111 11011101 1100101010 1101011 1101101110 110101001 110100101 11010111 0100111 110100101 11111100101 11011101 100100110 11110111 101001001010 110101101 1011010101 1011101111 1011011101 111101111 1111100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,599 |
Words | 287 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10, 5, 5, 10 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 253 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 23, 2023
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