Analysis of Gratification
James McIntyre 1828 (Forres) – 1906
We occasionally get a few gleams of encouragement while struggling through the trials
of life.A number of years ago a person employed by the Dominion Government to give
sketches of the various towns in Canada, and especially to describe the power of the
various streams and the number of streams in each town or neighborhood ; he came to us,
as we had written rhymes on the rivers and creeks. Years afterwards we were informed by
persons who came from Britain, as the book was to encourage emigration,that my name was
the only one they had ever heard of in Ingersoll until they came here.The celebrated
Spaulding, manufacturer and inventor of prepared glue, was in town a few days ago. He
expressed to a gentleman in town that he was gratified with a conversation he had with
me on poetic themes. As there is no natural affinity or adhesion binding glue to poetry,
we might say we discovered that the inventor possessed a refined and cultivated mind
and a fund of American humor.An old lady expressed herself very warmly after reading my
Canadian romance, that it was a true history of herself and husband ; that 35 years ago
they were not worth a dollar,and now they had 500 acres paid for of good land. The
reason why we alluded to this is:-Some have no faith that there is anything worthy of
commemorating in their own country, but consider worthy themes for either song or story
are three thousand miles across the Atlantic.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIHJEKCLHM |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10100010111010011001010 11101101010011001010011 101010010100001010101010 10010010110111101111 111101101001110010011 1011110101110101111 0101111011010001111100 10010000101011101011011 0110100011111010010111 1101011111100010010101011100 1111010100100100101001 0011010011100101101010101 010001111011001010101101 10110111110111110 1011010111111111110101 01000111010101011101110 11101010010 |
Characters | 1,420 |
Words | 259 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 68 |
Words per line (avg) | 15 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,154 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 253 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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