Analysis of The trail to lillooet
Emily Pauline Johnson 1861 – 1913
Sob of fall, and song of forest, come you here on haunting quest,
Calling through the seas and silence, from God's country of the west.
Where the mountain pass is narrow, and the torrent white and strong,
Down its rocky-throated canyon, sings its golden-throated song.
You are singing there together through the God-begotten nights,
And the leaning stars are listening above the distant heights
That lift like points of opal in the crescent coronet
About whose golden setting sweeps the trail to Lillooet.
Trail that winds and trail that wanders, like a cobweb hanging high,
Just a hazy thread outlining mid-way of the stream and sky,
Where the Fraser River canyon yawns its pathway to the sea,
But half the world has shouldered up between its song and me.
Here, the placid English August, and the sea-encircled miles,
There--God's copper-coloured sunshine beating through the lonely aisles
Where the waterfalls and forest voice for ever their duet,
And call across the canyon on the trail to Lillooet.
Scheme | AABB CCDA EEFF GGDA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111011101111101 101010101110101 101011100010101 111010101110101 111010101010101 001011100010101 11111100010101 011101010111 11101110101101 10101101110101 10101010111101 11011101011101 101010100010101 11101011010101 10100101110101 010101010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,010 |
Words | 168 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 50 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 202 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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