Analysis of Morning on the Lièvre
Archibald Lampman 1861 (Upper Canada) – 1899 (Ottawa, Canada)
Far above us where a jay
Screams his matins to the day,
Capped with gold and amethyst,
Like a vapor from the forge
Of a giant somewhere hid,
Out of hearing of the clang
Of his hammer, skirts of mist
Slowly up the woody gorge
Lift and hang.
Softly as a cloud we go,
Sky above and sky below,
Down the river; and the dip
Of the paddles scarcely breaks,
With the little silvery drip
Of the water as it shakes
From the blades, the crystal deep
Of the silence of the morn,
Of the forest yet asleep;
And the river reaches borne
In a mirror, purple gray,
Sheer away
To the misty line of light,
Where the forest and the stream
In the shadow meet and plight,
Like a dream.
From amid a stretch of reeds,
Where the lazy river sucks
All the water as it bleeds
From a little curling creek,
And the muskrats peer and sneak
In around the sunken wrecks
Of a tree that swept the skies
Long ago,
On a sudden seven ducks
With a splashy rustle rise,
Stretching out their seven necks,
One before, and two behind,
And the others all arow,
And as steady as the wind
With a swivelling whistle go,
Through the purple shadow led,
Till we only hear their whir
In behind a rocky spur,
Just ahead.
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Metre | 1011101 111101 1110100 1010101 101011 1110101 1110111 1010101 101 1010111 1010101 1010001 1010101 10101001 1010111 1010101 1010101 1010101 0010101 0010101 101 1010111 1010001 001101 101 1010111 1010101 1010111 1010101 001101 0010101 1011101 101 1010101 1010101 1011101 1010101 001011 0110101 101101 101011 1110111 0010101 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,210 |
Words | 229 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 16, 19 |
Lines Amount | 44 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 304 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 76 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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