Analysis of Life in the woods
James McIntyre 1828 (Forres) – 1906
Lines on the struggles of the early settlers.
Canada hath wealthy yeoman
Whose fathers overcame the foeman ;
The enemy they boldly slew
Was mighty forest they did hew,
And where they burned heaps of slain
Their sons now reap the golden grain ;
But in the region of North West,
With prairie farms they are blest ;
Though this to them it may seem good
Yet many blessings come from wood.
It shelters you from fierce storm,
And in the winter keeps you warm ;
For one who hath his forest trees
He builds his house and barn with ease,
And how quick he gets from thence
Timber for bridge and for his fence.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101010 10011010 11010101 01001101 11010111 0111111 11110101 10010111 1101111 11111111 11010111 1101111 00010111 11111101 11110111 0111111 10110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 591 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 16 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 237 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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