Analysis of Winter-Solitude
Archibald Lampman 1861 (Upper Canada) – 1899 (Ottawa, Canada)
I saw the city's towers on a luminous pale-gray sky;
Beyond them a hill of the softest mistiest green,
With naught but frost and the coming of night between,
And a long thin cloud above the colour of August rye.
I sat in the midst of a plain on my snowshoes with bended knee
Where the thin wind stung my cheeks,
And the hard snow ran in little ripples and peaks,
Like the fretted floor of a white and petrified sea.
And a strange peace gathered about my soul and shone,
As I sat reflecting there,
In a world so mystically fair,
So deathly silent--I so utterly alone.
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Metre | 110101010100111 01101101011 111100101101 0011101011101 110011011111101 1011111 001110101001 101011010101 001110011101 1110101 001111 110101110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 602 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 444 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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