Analysis of By An Autumn Stream
Archibald Lampman 1861 (Upper Canada) – 1899 (Ottawa, Canada)
Now overhead,
Where the rivulet loiters and stops,
The bittersweet hangs from the tops
Of the alders and cherries
Its bunches of beautiful berries,
Orange and red.
And the snowbirds flee,
Tossing up on the far brown field,
Now flashing and now concealed,
Like fringes of spray
That vanish and gleam on the gray
Field of the sea.
Flickering light,
Come the last of the leaves down borne,
And patches of pale white corn
In the wind complain,
Like the slow rustle of rain
Noticed by night.
Withered and thinned,
The sentinel mullein looms,
With the pale gray shadowy plumes
Of the goldenrod;
And the milkweed opens its pod,
Tempting the wind.
Aloft on the hill,
A cloudrift opens and shines
Through a break in its gorget of pines,
And it dreams at my feet
In a sad, silvery sheet,
Utterly still.
All things that be
Seem plunged into silence, distraught,
By some stern, some necessitous thought:
It wraps and enthralls
Marsh, meadow, and forest; and falls
Also on me.
Scheme | ABBCCA DEEFFD GHHIIG XJJKKX LMMNNL DOOBXD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101 101101 0101101 101010 110110010 1001 0011 10110111 1100101 11011 11001101 1101 1001 10110111 0101111 00101 1011011 1011 1001 010011 10111001 1010 0011011 1001 01101 011001 10101111 011111 0011001 1001 1111 11011001 111111 1101 1101001 1011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 936 |
Words | 172 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 127 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 01, 2023
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