Analysis of In March
Archibald Lampman 1861 (Upper Canada) – 1899 (Ottawa, Canada)
The sun falls warm: the southern winds awake:
The air seethes upwards with a steamy shiver:
Each dip of the road is now a crystal lake,
And every rut a little dancing river.
Through great soft clouds that sunder overhead
The deep sky breaks as pearly blue as summer:
Out of a cleft beside the river's bed
Flaps the black crow, the first demure newcomer.
The last seared drifts are eating fast away
With glassy tinkle into glittering laces:
Dogs lie asleep, and little children play
With tops and marbles in the sun-bare places;
And I that stroll with many a thoughtful pause
Almost forget that winter ever was.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111010101 01110101010 11101110101 010010101010 1111110101 01111101110 1101010101 1011010110 0111110101 110100110010 1101010101 11010001110 01111100101 101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 605 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 244 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 02, 2023
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