Analysis of The Boys' And Girls' Thanksgiving of 1892
Never since the race was started,
Had a boy in any clime,
Cause to be so thankful-hearted,
As the boys of present time.
Not a girl in old times living-
Let the world talk as it may-
Found such reasons for Thanksgiving,
As the girls who live to-day!
Grandmas, in their corners sitting,
Toiling till the day grew late,
What knew they with endless knitting,
Of the jolly roller-skate?
Grandpas sitting by the fender,
Reading by the faggots' blaze,
What knew they of modern splendor
Found in incandescent rays?
Where they toiled in bitter weather,
Braving rain and snow and sleet,
Gathering sticks of wood together,
We have radiators' heat.
But these fruits of modern science
They first planted seed by seed,
In their strength and self-reliance
We may find a noble creed.
With the dawn of great inventions,
Came the anti-warring days.
Men are sick of armed contentions,
God be thanked with heart-felt praise.
Once a boy was trained for fighting,
Now the world is better taught,
'Tis an age when wrongs are righting
By the force of common thought.
Once a girl was trained for sewing,
Spinning, knitting, nothing more.
She must never think of knowing
Aught of things outside her door.
If she soared above her spinning,
If she sought a life more broad,
She was looked upon as sinning
'Gainst the laws of man and God.
Now a girl is taught she's human,
Brain and body, soul and heart-
All are needed by the woman
Who to-day would play her part.
Swift and sure the world advances,
Let the critic carp who may.
God be praised for all the chances
Boys and girls enjoy to-day.
Scheme | ABAB CBCD CECE FGFG FHFH IJIJ KGKG CLCL CMCM CXCX NONO PBPD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (92%) |
Metre | 10101110 1010101 11111010 1011101 10101110 1011111 1110110 1011111 1011010 1010111 11111010 1010101 1101010 101011 11111010 100101 11101010 1010101 100111010 111001 11111010 1110111 01101010 1110101 10111010 1010101 11111010 1111111 10111110 1011101 1111111 1011101 10111110 1010101 11101110 1111101 11101010 1110111 11101110 1011101 10111110 1010101 11101010 1111101 10101010 1010111 11111010 1010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,524 |
Words | 281 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 48 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
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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