Analysis of On Lake Temiscamingue
Archibald Lampman 1861 (Upper Canada) – 1899 (Ottawa, Canada)
A single dreary elm, that stands between
The sombre forest and the wan-lit lake,
Halves with its slim gray stem and pendent green
The shadowed point. Beyond it without break
Bold brows of pine-topped granite bend away,
Far to the southward, fading off in grand
Soft folds of looming purple. Cool and gray,
The point runs out, a blade of thinnest sand.
Two rivers meet beyond it: wild and clear,
Their deepening thunder breaks upon the ear-
The one descending from its forest home
By many an eddied pool and murmuring fall-
The other cloven through the mountain wall,
A race of tumbled rocks, a road of foam.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101011101 011000111 111111011 0101011011 1111110101 1101010101 1111010101 0111011101 1101011101 11001010101 0101011101 11011101001 010110101 0111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 602 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 482 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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