Analysis of Willow-Pipes
Duncan Campbell Scott 1862 (Ottawa) – 1947
So in the shadow by the nimble flood
He made her whistles of the willow wood,
Flutes of one note with mellow slender tone;
(A robin piping in the dusk alone).
Lively the pleasure was the wand to bruise,
And notch the light rod for its lyric use,
Until the stem gave up its tender sheath,
And showed the white and glistening wood beneath.
And when the ground was covered with light chips,
Grey leaves and green, and twigs and tender slips,
They placed the well-made whistles in a row
And left them for the careless wind to blow.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100110101 110101011 1111110101 0101000101 1001010111 0101111101 0101111101 01010100101 0101110111 1101010101 1101110001 0111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 524 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 415 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 99 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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