Analysis of April Night
Archibald Lampman 1861 (Upper Canada) – 1899 (Ottawa, Canada)
How deep the April night is in its noon,
The hopeful, solemn, many-murmured night!
The earth lies hushed with expectation; bright
Above the world's dark border burns the moon,
Yellow and large; from forest floorways, strewn
With flowers, and fields that tingle with new birth,
The moist smell of the unimprisoned earth
Come up, a sigh, a haunting promise. Soon,
Ah, soon, the teeming triumph! At my feet
The river with its stately sweep and wheel
Moves on slow-motioned, luminous, gray like steel.
From fields far off whose watery hollows gleam,
Aye with blown throats that make the long hours sweet,
The sleepless toads are murmuring in their dreams.
Scheme | ABBAACCA DEEXDX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011011 0101010101 011110101 0101110101 100111011 11001110111 0111011 1101010101 1101010111 0101110101 11110100111 11111100101 11111101101 01011100011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 646 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 259 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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