Analysis of Music
Archibald Lampman 1861 (Upper Canada) – 1899 (Ottawa, Canada)
Move on, light hands, so strongly tenderly,
Now with dropped calm and yearning undersong,
Now swift and loud, tumultuously strong,
And I in darkness, sitting near to thee,
Shall not only hear, and feel, but shall not see,
One hour made passionately bright with dreams,
Keen glimpses of life's splendour, dashing gleams
Of what we would, and what we cannot be.
Surely not painful ever, yet not glad,
Shall such hours be to me, but blindly sweet,
Sharp with all yearning and all fact at strife,
Dreams that shine by with unremembered feet,
And tones that like far distance make this life
Spectral and wonderful and strangely sad.
Scheme | ABBAACCA DEFEFD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110100 11110101 110111 0101010111 11101011111 11011000111 110111101 1111011101 1011010111 11101111101 1111001111 1111111 0111110111 101000101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 622 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 249 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 25, 2023
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