Analysis of How one Winter Came in the Lake Region
William Wilfred Campbell 1860 (Newmarket) – 1918 (Ottawa)
1 For weeks and weeks the autumn world stood still,
2 Clothed in the shadow of a smoky haze;
3 The fields were dead, the wind had lost its will,
4 And all the lands were hushed by wood and hill,
5 In those grey, withered days.
6 Behind a mist the blear sun rose and set,
7 At night the moon would nestle in a cloud;
8 The fisherman, a ghost, did cast his net;
9 The lake its shores forgot to chafe and fret,
10 And hushed its caverns loud.
11 Far in the smoky woods the birds were mute,
12 Save that from blackened tree a jay would scream,
13 Or far in swamps the lizard's lonesome lute
14 Would pipe in thirst, or by some gnarlèd root
15 The tree-toad trilled his dream.
16 From day to day still hushed the season's mood,
17 The streams stayed in their runnels shrunk and dry;
18 Suns rose aghast by wave and shore and wood,
19 And all the world, with ominous silence, stood
20 In weird expectancy:
21 When one strange night the sun like blood went down,
22 Flooding the heavens in a ruddy hue;
23 Red grew the lake, the sere fields parched and brown,
24 Red grew the marshes where the creeks stole down,
25 But never a wind-breath blew.
26 That night I felt the winter in my veins,
27 A joyous tremor of the icy glow;
28 And woke to hear the north's wild vibrant strains,
29 While far and wide, by withered woods and plains,
30 Fast fell the driving snow.
Scheme | ABAAB CDCCD EFEEF XXGGX HIHHI JKJJK |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 1101010111 100110101 0101011111 0101011101 011101 0101011101 1101110001 010011111 0111011101 011101 1001010101 1111010111 1101010101 1101111111 011111 1111110101 0110110101 1101110101 01011100101 010100 1111011111 1001000101 1101011101 1101010111 1100111 1111010011 0101010101 0111011101 1101110101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,463 |
Words | 272 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 13 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 174 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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