Analysis of White Pansies
Archibald Lampman 1861 (Upper Canada) – 1899 (Ottawa, Canada)
Day and night pass over, rounding,
Star and cloud and sun,
Things of drift and shadow, empty
Of my dearest one.
Soft as slumber was my baby,
Beaming bright and sweet;
Daintier than bloom or jewel
Were his hands and feet.
He was mine, mine all, mine only,
Mine and his the debt;
Earth and Life and Time are changers;
I shall not forget.
Pansies for my dear one--heartsease--
Set them gently so;
For his stainless lips and forehead,
Pansies white as snow.
Would that in the flower-grown little
Grave they dug so deep,
I might rest beside him, dreamless,
Smile no more, nor weep.
Scheme | XABA BCDC BEFE FGXG DHFH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Tetractys (30%) Etheree (25%) |
Metre | 10111010 10101 1110110 11101 11101110 10101 111110 01101 11111110 10101 10101110 11101 1011111 11101 11101010 10111 110010110 11111 1110111 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 565 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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