Analysis of The Hill Maples
Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874 (New London, Prince Edward Island) – 1942 (Toronto)
Here on a hill of the occident stand we shoulder to shoulder,
Comrades tried and true through a mighty swath of the years!
Spring harps glad laughter through us, and ministrant rains of the autumn
Sing us again the songs of ancient dolor and tears.
The glory of sunrise smites on our fair, free brows uplifted
When the silver-kirtled day steps over the twilight's bars;
At evening we look adown into valleys hearted with sunset,
And we whisper old lore together under the smouldering stars.
Crescent moons of the summer gleam through our swaying branches,
Knee-deep in fern we stand while the days of the sun-time go;
And the winds of winter love usthe keen, gay winds of the winter,
Coming to our gray arms from over the plains of snow.
Down in the valleys beneath us is wooing and winning and wedding,
Down in the long, dim valleys earth-children wail and weep;
But here on these free hills we grow and are strong and flourish,
Comrades shoulder to shoulder our watch of the years to keep.
Scheme | AXXX XBXB XCAC XDXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 110110101110110 110110101101 11110110111010 110101110101 010111110111100 101011110011 11011101101011 01101101010011 101101011101010 11011110110111 0011101101111010 10110111100111 10010011110010010 1001110110101 11111111011010 11011010110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 989 |
Words | 179 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 50 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 198 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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