Analysis of Stone Breaking
Duncan Campbell Scott 1862 (Ottawa) – 1947
March wind rough
Clashed the trees,
Flung the snow;
Breaking stones,
In the cold,
Germans slow
Toiled and toiled;
Arrowy sun
Glanced and sprang,
One right blithe
German sang:
Songs of home,
Fatherland:
Syenite hard,
Weary lot,
Callous hand,
All forgot:
Hammers pound,
Ringing round;
Rise the heaps,
To his voice,
Bounds and leaps
Toise on toise:
Toil is long,
But dear God
Gives us song,
At the end
Gives us test,
Toil is best.
Scheme | ABCDECFGHIHJKLMKMNNOPOBQRQSTT |
---|---|
Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 101 101 101 001 101 101 11 101 111 101 111 10 11 101 101 101 101 101 101 111 101 111 111 111 111 101 111 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 409 |
Words | 77 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 29 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 11 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 331 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 75 |
Font size:
Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
- 23 sec read
- 309 Views
Citation
Use the citation below to add this poem analysis to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Stone Breaking" Poetry.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 1 May 2024. <https://www.poetry.com/poem-analysis/8361/stone-breaking>.
Discuss this Duncan Campbell Scott poem analysis with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In