Analysis of An Autograph
James McIntyre 1828 (Forres) – 1906
Lines written at the request of a young lady and inserted in a mental Album.
We looked over the book, it was in form of questions and auswers. One
of the questions was 'who is your favorite poet?' We were quite amused
to find a number of different persons had written in answer, 'McIntyre.'
We believe that the most of them were joking, but we hope to inspire them
With loftier idea of our poetic power in the future.
In this Album you may trace-
If not the lineaments of face-
Here, at least, you will find
Photographs of the mind.
Some in earnest, some in fun,
some do lecture, some do pun ;
Here the maiden and the youth,
Each proclaim some precious truth.
And there is some fine pages-
Written by maturer ages-
They show that time is brief,
That soon comes sere and yellow leaf.
But we must cease, 'ere your ire
Be aroused 'gainst McIntyre,
Who doth reside in Ingersoll-
you'll think that he is droll.
Scheme | XAXBXX CCDD AAEE FFGG BBXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101001101100010001010 1110011101110011 101011111001010101 110101100101100101 101101110101111011 1100010110010100010 0110111 110111 111111 10101 1010101 1110111 1010001 1011101 0111110 101110 111111 11110101 1111111 10111 11010100 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 897 |
Words | 173 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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