Analysis of The Poets
Archibald Lampman 1861 (Upper Canada) – 1899 (Ottawa, Canada)
Half god, half brute, within the self-same shell,
Changers with every hour from dawn till even,
Who dream with angels in the gate of heaven,
And skirt with curious eyes the brinks of hell,
Children of Pan, whom some, the few, love well,
But most draw back, and know not what to say,
Poor shining angels, whom the hoofs betray,
Whose pinions frighten with their goatish smell.
Half brutish, half divine, but all of earth,
Half-way 'twixt hell and heaven, near to man,
The whole world's tangle gathered in one span,
Full of this human torture and this mirth:
Life with its hope and error, toil and bliss,
Earth-born, earth-reared, ye know it as it is.
Scheme | AXXAABBA CDDCXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010111 1011001011110 11110001110 01110010111 1011110111 1111011111 1101010101 11101111 1101011111 1111010111 0111010011 1111010011 1111010101 1111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 644 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 251 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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