Analysis of Lines On The North Of Scotland
James McIntyre 1828 (Forres) – 1906
Lines on the North of Scotland, delivered in Embro nearly a
quarter of a century ago:
Scotsmen have wandered far and wide,
From Moray Frith to Frith of Clyde;
McDonald, from his sea girt isle,
And Campbell from his broad Argyle-
But chiefly here you have come forth
From those countries of the north;
Some oft have trod Dunrobins's Halls,
And gazed upon its stately walls.
Here to-night in this array
Is Murray, McKenzie and McKay;
And there doth around us stand
The Munroe, Ross and Sutherland.
Your young men have high honour earned;
In all of the professions learned;
Your Bonnie Lasses sung in song,
And youths are famed for muscle strong.
Scheme | XX AABB CCDD EEXX FFGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111001001100 101010001 1110101 10111111 01011111 0101111 11011111 1110101 111111 01011101 1110101 110010001 0110111 01010100 1111111 01100101 1101101 01111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 641 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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