Analysis of Midnight
Archibald Lampman 1861 (Upper Canada) – 1899 (Ottawa, Canada)
From where I sit, I see the stars,
And down the chilly floor
The moon between the frozen bars
Is glimmering dim and hoar.
Without in many a peakèd mound
The glinting snowdrifts lie;
There is no voice or living sound;
The embers slowly die.
Yet some wild thing is in mine ear;
I hold my breath and hark;
Out of the depth I seem to hear
A crying in the dark;
No sound of man or wife or child,
No sound of beast that groans,
Or of the wind that whistles wild,
Or of the tree that moans:
I know not what it is I hear;
I bend my head and hark:
I cannot drive it from mine ear,
That crying in the dark.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEF GHGHEFEF |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 11111101 010101 01010101 1100101 010100111 01011 11111101 010101 11111011 111101 11011111 010001 11111111 111111 11011101 110111 11111111 111101 11011111 110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 660 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 8 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 227 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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