Analysis of Lines Read at a Dairymaids' Social, 1887
James McIntyre 1828 (Forres) – 1906
Where the young lady waiters were dressed as dairymaids.
Throughout the world they do extol
The fame of our town Ingersoll,
The capital of dairyland,
To-night it seems like fairy land,
The youth and beauty here arrayed,
So sweet and neat each dairymaid.
And worthy of a poet's theme,
Sweet and smooth flows milk and cream,
For song or glee what is fitter
In this land of cheese and butter,
But no young man should be afraid
To court a pretty dairymaid.
And far abroad he should not roam
But find a charmer here at home,
Find some one now your heart to chear,
Thus celebrate the jubilee year,
Remember long this ladies' aid
And each bewitching dairymaid.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110100111 01011101 011101100 010011 11111101 01010101 110111 01010101 1011101 11111110 01111010 11111101 110101 01011111 11010111 11111111 1100101 01011101 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 643 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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