Analysis of Song

Duncan Campbell Scott 1862 (Ottawa) – 1947



Creep into my heart, creep in, creep in,
Afar from the fret, the toil and the din,
Where the spring of love forever flows,
As clear as light and as sweet as the rose;
(Creep into my heart),
Where the dreams never wilt but their tints refine,
Rooted in beautiful thoughts of thine;
Where morn falls cool on the soul, like sleep,
And the nights are tranquil and tranced and deep;
Where the fairest thing of all the fair
Thou art, who hast somehow crept in there,
Deep into my heart,
Deep into my heart.


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Poetic Form
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Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 496
Words 97
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 387
Words per stanza (avg) 95
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Duncan Campbell Scott

Duncan Campbell Scott was a Canadian bureaucrat, Canadian poet and prose writer. more…

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