Analysis of Little Lake
James McIntyre 1828 (Forres) – 1906
Sonnet on an incident which occurred on a small Lake in Northern Ontario.
Pleasant memories it awakes,
When musing on our northern lakes ;
For there I saw a charming Reed,
A friend to me in hour of need.
I wished to cross to other shore,
And deftly she did ply the oar,
And o'er the Lake me swiftly bore.
I was plunged in deep despair,
Before I met this charming fair ;
I could not go around by land,
And I felt like shipwrecked on the strand ;
Until fair vision hove in sight
Graceful as a fairy sprite.
May she be blest, is the desire
Of her true friend James McIntyre.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101110010110110100100 1010011 110110101 11110101 011101011 11111101 01011101 010011101 1110101 01111101 11110111 01111101 01110101 1010101 111110010 101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 567 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 15 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 222 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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