Analysis of The Bird and the Hour

Archibald Lampman 1861 (Upper Canada) – 1899 (Ottawa, Canada)



The sun looks over a little hill
And floods the valley with gold-
A torrent of gold;
And the hither field is green and still;
Beyond it a cloud outrolled,
Is glowing molten and bright;
And soon the hill, and the valley and all,
With a quiet fall,
Shall be gathered into the night.
And yet a moment more,
Out of the silent wood,
As if from the closing door
Of another world and another lovelier mood,
Hear'st thou the hermit pour-
So sweet! so magical!-
His golden music, ghostly beautiful.


Scheme ABBABCDDCEFEGEHH
Poetic Form
Metre 011100101 0101011 01011 001011101 011011 1101001 0101001001 10101 11100101 010101 110101 1110101 10101001011 1110101 111100 1101010100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 482
Words 94
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 380
Words per stanza (avg) 91
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Archibald Lampman

Archibald Lampman FRSC was a Canadian poet. "He has been described as 'the Canadian Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent of the Canadian school of nature poets." The Canadian Encyclopedia says that he is "generally considered the finest of Canada's late 19th-century poets in English." Lampman is classed as one of Canada's Confederation Poets, a group which also includes Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, and Duncan Campbell Scott. more…

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