Analysis of Upon the mountain's distant head
William Cullen Bryant 1794 (Cummington) – 1878 (New York City)
Upon the mountain's distant head,
With trackless snows for ever white,
Where all is still, and cold, and dead,
Late shines the day's departing light.
But far below those icy rocks,
The vales, in summer bloom arrayed,
Woods full of birds, and fields of flocks,
Are dim with mist and dark with shade.
'Tis thus, from warm and kindly hearts,
And eyes where generous meanings burn,
Earliest the light of life departs,
But lingers with the cold and stern.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
Metre | 01010101 1111101 11110101 11010101 11011101 01010101 11110111 11110111 11110101 011100101 100011101 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 447 |
Words | 81 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 26, 2023
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