This is an analysis of Archibald Lampman by Jean Blewett.

You sing of winter gray and chill,
Of silent stream and frozen lake,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abba cddc effe gddg bccb hggh eiieXdiid
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Metre: 11010111 01011101 01011111 011110111 11110101 11110111 01111101 11110101 11010111 010101001 01010111 01010001 01110111 01010111 11010001 11011111 11011111 11010111 01011101 01010001 010100111 01010111 01110101 01111111 11110111 11110111 11001111 01001001 11001100 11011101 11011101 11011101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 8
  • Lines: 32

Repeated words/phrases

and, of, you, sleep

Anaphora

of, and, the, this