Analysis of Colorado Sonnet
The lark bunting trills with lovely refrain
In these soon-to-be, snow-laced, timbered hills.
I? I stroll with wonder through the terrain,
Enraptured with feelings a mystic feels.
My home, my heart from my earliest days,
Lies amid the fragrance of minted pines
Where distant snow-clad peaks are vaulted, raised
Like castle walls in lofty, staggered lines.
My heart, from boyhood’s earliest hours,
Pledged itself to these woods where aspens quake,
To these frigid creeks and perfumed flowers,
To the fog-filled valleys and hanging lakes.
Makes no difference: mountain or hill or grove …
Where the lark bunting singing roves, I rove.
Scheme | AXAX XBXB CXCX DD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0110111001 011111111 1111101001 0101100101 1111111001 1010101101 1101111101 1101010101 111110010 1011111101 1110100110 1011100101 11100101111 1011010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 672 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
I wish I could articulate with better words how beautiful and how lovely Colorado is: every season expresses itself in a way that is Eden-like.
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