Analysis of The Great Fire of Ingersoll
James McIntyre 1828 (Forres) – 1906
Written at the time of the disaster.
'Twas on a pleasant eve in May.
Just as the sun shed its last ray,
The bell it rang, citizens to warn,
For lo ! a fire appears in barn.
An ancient barn near hotel stood,
The joining buildings all were wood ;
This barn a relic of the past,
There farmers' horses were made fast.
Our once fair town is now in woe,
And we have had our Chicago ;
But soon a nobler town will rise,
For Ingersoll's all enterprise.
For water far town need not seek,
As there is river and the creek
Just find the means it to apply
And then all fires must quickly die.
Scheme | X AAXX BBCC DDEE FFGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010110010 11010101 11011111 011110011 110100101 11011011 01010101 11010101 11010011 101111101 01111001 11010111 11110 11011111 11110001 11011101 011101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 574 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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