Analysis of Three Songs
Duncan Campbell Scott 1862 (Ottawa) – 1947
Where love is life
The roses blow,
Though winds be rude
And cold the snow,
The roses climb
Serenely slow,
They nod in rhyme
We know--we know
Where love is life
The roses blow.
Where life is love
The roses blow,
Though care be quick
And sorrows grow,
Their roots are twined
With rose-roots so
That rosebuds find
A way to show
Where life is love
The roses blow.
Nothing came here but sunlight,
Nothing fell here but rain,
Nothing blew but the mellow wind,
Here are the flowers again!
No one came here but you, dear,
You with your magic train
Of brightness and laughter and lightness,
Here is my joy again!
I have songs of dancing pleasure,
I have songs of happy heart,
Songs are mine that pulse in measure
To the throbbing of the mart.
Songs are mine of magic seeming,
In a land of love forlorn,
Where the joys are had for dreaming,
At a summons from the horn.
But my sad songs come unbidden,
Rising with a wilder zest,
From the bitter pool that's hidden,
Deep--deep--deep within my breast.
Scheme | ABxbcbcbAB DBxbebebDB xfeg xfxg hihi jkjk flxl |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) Tetractys (33%) |
Metre | 1111 0101 1111 0101 0101 01001 1101 1111 1111 0101 1111 0101 1111 0101 1111 1111 111 0111 1111 0101 101111 101111 10110101 1101001 1111111 111101 110010010 111101 11111010 1111101 11111010 1010101 11111010 0011101 10111110 1010101 111111 1010101 10101110 1110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 963 |
Words | 189 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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