Analysis of An Indian Love Song



Light o’ the lodge, how I love thee,
Light o’ the lodge, how I love thee,
         Mianza, my wild-wood fawn!
To wait and to watch for thy passing.
          On hill-top I linger at dawn.

Glimmer of morn, how I love thee,
Glimmer of morn, how I love thee!
      My flute to the ground now I fling,
      As you tread the steep trail to the spring,
For thy coming has silenced my song.

Shimmer of moon on the river,
Sheen of soft star on the lake!
     Moonlight and starlight are naught;
     Their gleam and their glow is ne’er fraught
With such love-light as falls from thine eyes.


Scheme AAbcb AAccx xxddx
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 11011111 11011111 11111 110111110 11111011 10111111 10111111 11101111 111011101 111011011 10111010 1111101 10111 11011111 111111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 577
Words 106
Sentences 7
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 137
Words per stanza (avg) 35
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Bertrand N. O. Walker

Bertrand N. O. Walker, who published his poems under his Wyandot name, Hen-toh, was born in 1870. He is the author of the poetry collection Yon-Doo-Shah-We-Ah (Nubbins) (Harlow, 1924) and Tales of the Bark Lodges (Harlow, 1919), a book of Wyandot animal stories. He died in 1927. more…

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