Analysis of The Song Of Pan
Archibald Lampman 1861 (Upper Canada) – 1899 (Ottawa, Canada)
Mad with love and laden
With immortal pain,
Pan pursued a maiden--
Pan, the god--in vain.
For when Pan had nearly
Touched her, wild to plead,
She was gone--and clearly
In her place a reed!
Long the god, unwitting,
Through the valley strayed;
Then at last, submitting,
Cut the reed, and made,
Deftly fashioned, seven
Pipes, and poured his pain
Unto earth and heaven
In a piercing strain.
So with god and poet;
Beauty lures them on,
Flies, and ere they know it
Like a wraith is gone.
Then they seek to borrow
Pleasure still from wrong,
And with smiling sorrow
Turn it to a song.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF ABAB XXXX GHGH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 111010 10101 101010 10101 111110 10111 111010 00101 101010 10101 111010 10101 101010 10111 101010 00101 111010 10111 101111 10111 11111 10111 011010 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 561 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 74 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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