Analysis of A little stuck on the Lake District, England?
It blew me away!
Searched poetry.com
For some favourite
North American poets…
E. Pauline Johnson (next to nothing; brilliant aboriginal princess)
Al Purdy
Archibald Lampman* (decent listing but…)
Duncan Campbell Scott https://youtu.be/l4OK47jrCe8
Irving Layton*** (nothing??? Some say Canada’s best)
Rienzi Crusz (a gentle personal acquaintance in my City)
Robert W. Service (minimal representation. The Klondike rhymer.)
Philip Levine (pulitzer prize, 1995)
Robt. Penn Warren (pulitzer prize, Promises 1957; https://naturesode.blogspot.com/2022/09/chief-joseph-of-real-people-nez-perce.html. )
Margaret Atwood (writer of The Handmaid’s Tale)
Found so very little
What gives?
* I attach a link to a you tube video giving the poem, The Violinist by Lampman. What a name for a nature and inspirational poet…LAMPMAN. Rivals Wordsworth, methinks.
for leonard cohen
| Scheme | XXAB XAA B A A X X C C CX B X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101 11 111 1010010 10110111010010010 110 101010101 10101111111 1010101111 110101000100110 101001010000100110 10011001 1110100110011110111011 1001101011 111010 11 1010110111001001000010110101101000100101010101 11010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 1,123 |
| Words | 175 |
| Sentences | 27 |
| Stanzas | 12 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 57 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
About this poem
Good as they are, the old English poets cannot stand up on the pinnacle alone. The world is full of verse. And fine verse too…Wayne Blair https://canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/index_poet_19th.htm
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Written on March 28, 2023
Submitted by dougb.19255 on March 28, 2023
Modified by dougb.19255 on March 28, 2023
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