Analysis of The Message
Duncan Campbell Scott 1862 (Ottawa) – 1947
Wind of the gentle summer night,
Dwell in the lilac tree,
Sway the blossoms clustered light,
Then blow over to me.
Wind, you are sometimes strong and great,
You frighten the ships at sea,
Now come floating your delicate freight
Out of the lilac tree,
Wind you must waver a gossamer sail
To ferry a scent so light,
Will you carry my love a message as frail
Through the hawk-haunted night?
For my heart is sometimes strange and wild,
Bitter and bold and free,
I scare the beautiful timid child,
As you frighten the ships at sea;
But now when the hawks are piercing the air,
With the golden stars above,
The only thing that my heart can bear
Is a lilac message of love.
Gentle wind, will you carry this
Up to her window white
Give her a gentle tender kiss;
Bid her good-night, good-night.
Scheme | ABAB CBCB DADA EBEB FGFG HAHA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11010101 10011 1010101 111011 11101101 1100111 111011001 11011 1111001001 1100111 11101101011 101101 111101101 100101 110100101 11100111 1110111001 1010101 010111111 1011011 10111101 110101 10010101 101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 770 |
Words | 148 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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