Analysis of Lines on Mt. Elgin
James McIntyre 1828 (Forres) – 1906
Delivered at opening of Odd-Fellows' Lodge.
Dereham now hath wealthy yoemen
Whose fathers overcame the foemen ;
The enemy they boldly slew
Was mighty forests they did hew,
And where they burned heaps of slain
Their sons now reap the golden grain.
All will rejoice they took a trip
Onboard the craft Odd: Fellowship ;
Your candidates now, in their yonth,
Will soon learn friendship, love and truth.
We hope your influence will be good,
A blessing to the neighborhood.
Scheme | X AABBAA CCDDEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010110011101 111101 11010101 01001101 11010111 0111111 11110101 11011101 101110 11001011 11110101 111100111 0101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 466 |
Words | 80 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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