Analysis of Feuilles D'Automne
Duncan Campbell Scott 1862 (Ottawa) – 1947
Gather the leaves from the forest
And blow them over the world,
The wind of winter follows
The wind of autumn furled.
Only the beech tree cherishes
A leaf or two for ruth,
Their stems too tough for the tempest,
Like thoughts of love and of youth.
You may sit by the fire and ponder
While darkness veils the pane,
And fear that your memories are rushing away
In the wind and the rain.
But you'll find them in the quiet
When the clouds race with the moon,
Making the tender silver sound
Of a beech in the month of June.
For you cannot rob the memory
Of the leaves it loves the best;
The wind of time may harry them,
It rushes away with the rest.
Scheme | AXXA XBAB XCXC XDXD XEXE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (25%) |
Metre | 10011010 0111001 0111010 011101 10011100 011111 11111010 1111011 1111010010 110101 011110011001 001001 11110010 1011101 10010101 10100111 111010100 1011101 01111101 11001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 632 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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