Analysis of Loon Point
Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)
Softly the water ripples
Against the canoe's curving side,
Softly the birch trees rustle
Flinging over us branches wide.
Softly the moon glints and glistens
As the water takes and leaves,
Like golden ears of corn
Which fall from loose-bound sheaves,
Or like the snow-white petals
Which drop from an overblown rose,
When Summer ripens to Autumn
And the freighted year must close.
From the shore come the scents of a garden,
And between a gap in the trees
A proud white statue glimmers
In cold, disdainful ease.
The child of a southern people,
The thought of an alien race,
What does she in this pale, northern garden,
How reconcile it with her grace?
But the moon in her wayward beauty
Is ever and always the same,
As lovely as when upon Latmos
She watched till Endymion came.
Through the water the moon writes her legends
In light, on the smooth, wet sand;
They endure for a moment, and vanish,
And no one may understand.
All round us the secret of Nature
Is telling itself to our sight,
We may guess at her meaning but never
Can know the full mystery of night.
But her power of enchantment is on us,
We bow to the spell which she weaves,
Made up of the murmur of waves
And the manifold whisper of leaves.
Scheme | ABCB ADXD AXXX EFXF CGEG XHAH XIXI JKJK XDXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (78%) |
Metre | 1001010 0101101 1001110 10101101 1001101 1010101 110111 111111 1101110 1111011 1101110 001111 1011011010 00101001 011110 010101 01101010 01111001 1110111010 1101101 101001010 1100101 11011011 11111 1010011010 0110111 1011010010 011101 111010110 110011101 1111010110 110110011 10101010111 11101111 11101011 00101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,213 |
Words | 224 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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