Analysis of A Sunset at Les Eboulements
Archibald Lampman 1861 (Upper Canada) – 1899 (Ottawa, Canada)
Broad shadows fall. On all the mountain side
The scythe-swept fields are silent. Slowly home
By the long beach the high-piled hay-carts come,
Splashing the pale salt shallows. Over wide
Fawn-coloured wastes of mud the slipping tide,
Round the dun rocks and wattled fisheries,
Creeps murmuring in. And now by twos and threes,
O'er the slow spreading pools with clamorous chide,
Belated crows from strip to strip take flight.
Soon will the first star shine; yet ere the night
Reach onward to the pale-green distances,
The sun's last shaft beyond the gray sea-floor
Still dreams upon the Kamouraska shore,
And the long line of golden villages.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110101 0111110101 1011011111 100111101 1101110101 1011010100 11000011101 1001101111 0101111111 1101111101 1101011100 0111010111 1101011 0011110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 663 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 513 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 106 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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