Analysis of English Names on Canadian Thames
James McIntyre 1828 (Forres) – 1906
England hath given us the names
To adorn Canadian Thames,
And charms to them she hath lent,
In Oxford, Middlesex and Kent.
She Essex kisseth in her mouth,
And Scottish names, one north, one south ;
And London now she justly claims
She's capital of vale of Thames,
And her strong castellated tower .
Doth on the river frowning lower ;
And Chatham is the river's port,
There slaves for freedom did resort,
And they did industrious toil
And now many own the soil.
Stratford, now, shall be our theme,
On Avon, tributary stream,
And its clear waters it doth launch
Into the Thames, northern branch.
Near that substantial stone town,
St. Mary's, with mills of renown.
Some imagine the Thames is too insignificant a stream
to be sung in verse.' Distance lends enchantment to
the view. and they fancy the old Scottish rivers are
more worthy of song ; but many of them are polluted of
late years with vile odors from factories ; and, as the
county of Oxford is agreeably diversified with hills
and dales, the clear, sparkling stream, flowing over a
pebbly bottom, is indeed 'a thing of beauty and a joy forever.'
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Metre | 10110101 10101001 0111111 0101001 1101001 01011111 01011101 11001111 001110 110101010 01010101 11110101 01101001 0110101 10111101 1101001 01110111 0101101 1101011 11011101 10100111010001 111011010101 0101100110101 110111101110101 1111101100010 101101101011 010110110100 11010101110001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,088 |
Words | 196 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 20, 8 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 433 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 99 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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