Analysis of In My Study,

William Wilfred Campbell 1860 (Newmarket) – 1918 (Ottawa)



Out over my study,
  All ashen and ruddy,
Sinks the December sun;
  And high up over
  The chimney’s soot cove,
The winter night wind has begun.

Here in the red embers
  I dream old Decembers,
Until the low moan of the blast,
  Like a voice out of Ghost-land,

Or memory’s lost-land,
Seems to conjure up wraiths of the past.

Then into the room
  Through the firelight and gloom,
Some one steals,—let the night-wind grow bleak,

And ever so coldly,—
  Two white arms enfold me,
And a sweet face is close to my cheek


Scheme AABXXB CCDE ED FFG AAG
Poetic Form
Metre 110110 110010 100101 01110 01011 01011101 100110 1111 01011101 1011111 1111 111011101 10101 10101 111101111 010110 111011 001111111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 541
Words 97
Sentences 3
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 6, 4, 2, 3, 3
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 77
Words per stanza (avg) 19
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 15, 2023

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William Wilfred Campbell

William Wilfred Campbell (1 June ca. 1860 – 1 January 1918) was a Canadian poet. He is often classed as one of the country's Confederation Poets, a group that included fellow Canadians Charles G. D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, Archibald Lampman, and Duncan Campbell Scott; he was a colleague of Lampman and Scott. By the end of the 19th century, he was considered the "unofficial poet laureate of Canada." Although not as well known as the other Confederation poets today, Campbell was a "versatile, interesting writer" who was influenced by Robert Burns, the English Romantics, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Carlyle, and Alfred Tennyson. Inspired by these writers, Campbell expressed his own religious idealism in traditional forms and genres.  more…

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