Analysis of Canada Our Home
James McIntyre 1828 (Forres) – 1906
The following response to ' Canada, our Home,' was given
at a banquet of the Caledonian Society, Ingersoll.
In responding to the sentiment, 'Canada, our Home,'
perhaps it would be appropriate to point out the prominent
and distinguishing characteristics between the land of our
nativity and the land of our adoption. In this Canada of ours
we have no bonny blooming heath, no banks and braes covered
o'er with daisies and gowans, no fragrant hedges, showering
down white spray in the May time, no whin and broom,
prodigal in their gayety of yellow flowers ; no hills
nor glens, where fairies gambol in pleasent and harmless sport ;
no grand ruins of ancient cathedrals and castles, no feathered
songsters like the mavis and blackbird.
Full oft we did enraptured hark
To heavenly song of the sky lark.
But Canada is a young giant in its infancy. With the noblest chain
of lakes in the world on its frontier, and the most magnificent river,
the St. Lawrence, this land also possesses the largest fertile
wilderness on the globe ; but it is one which will, o'er many years
have passed away, blossom like a garden, and where naught but
grass and flowers now grow in wild luxuriance, soon the
husbandman will plow and sow and reap a rich reward in yellow,
golden grain.
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Metre | 0100011100101110 10101001000100100 001010100100101 0111101001110100 0010000100101110 010000111001001100110 11110101110110 1011001011010100 11100111101 1000111101011 111101010101 1110110010010110 11010010 11110101 110011011 1100101100110010101 110011101001010010 0110111001001010 10010111111110101 11011010100111 10101101110 11101010101010 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,251 |
Words | 223 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 11, 2, 8 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 44 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 252 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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