Analysis of A Thunderstorm
Archibald Lampman 1861 (Upper Canada) – 1899 (Ottawa, Canada)
A moment the wild swallows like a flight
Of withered gust-caught leaves, serenely high,
Toss in the windrack up the muttering sky.
The leaves hang still. Above the weird twilight,
The hurrying centres of the storm unite
And spreading with huge trunk and rolling fringe,
Each wheeled upon its own tremendous hinge,
Tower darkening on. And now from heaven's height,
With the long roar of elm-trees swept and swayed,
And pelted waters, on the vanished plain
Plunges the blast. Behind the wild white flash
That splits abroad the pealing thunder-crash,
Over bleared fields and gardens disarrayed,
Column on column comes the drenching rain.
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Metre | 0100110101 11011101001 1001101001 011101011 0100101011 0101110101 1101110101 101001011101 1011111101 0101010101 1001010111 110101101 10110101 1011010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 651 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 513 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 103 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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