Analysis of Why Do Ye Call The Poet Lonely
Archibald Lampman 1861 (Upper Canada) – 1899 (Ottawa, Canada)
Why do ye call the poet lonely,
Because he dreams in lonely places?
He is not desolate, but only
Sees, where ye cannot, hidden faces.
Scheme | ABAB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111101010 011101010 111100110 111101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 138 |
Words | 27 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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