Analysis of The Poet's Possession
Archibald Lampman 1861 (Upper Canada) – 1899 (Ottawa, Canada)
Think not, oh master of the well-tilled field,
This earth is only thine; for after thee,
When all is sown and gathered and put by,
Comes the grave poet with creative eye,
And from these silent acres and clean plots,
Bids with his wand the fancied after-yield,
A second tilth and second harvest, be,
The crop of images and curious thoughts.
| Scheme | ABCCDABE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111010111 1111011101 1111010011 1011010101 0111010011 1111010101 0101010101 01110001001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 340 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 266 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 61 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
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