Analysis of The Lake of the Thousand Isles
Evan MacColl 1808 (Kenmore, Argyll and Bute) – 1898 (Kingston)
(For Music.)
Though Missouri'stide may majestic glide,
There's a curse on the soil it laves;
The Ohio, too, may be fair, but who
Would sojourn in the land of slaves?
Be my prouder lot a Canadian cot
And the bread of a freeman's toils;
Then hurrah for the land of the forests grand,
And the Lake of the Thousand Isles!
I would seek no wealth, at the cost of health,
'Mid the city's din and strife;
More I love the grace of fair nature's face,
And the calm of a woodland life;
I would shun the road by ambition trod,
And the lore which the heart defiles;--
Then hurrah for the land of the forests grand,
And the Lake of the Thousand Isles!
O away, away! I would gladly stray
Where the freedom I love is found;
Where the pine and oak by the woodman's stroke
Are disturbed in their ancient bound;
Where the gladsome swain reaps the golden grain,
And the trout from the stream beguiles;
Then hurrah for the land of the forests grand,
And the Lake of the Thousand Isles.
Scheme | xxaxaxaBAxcacxaBA xdxdxaBA |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (24%) |
Metre | 110 1110101 10110111 0010111111 11000111 11101001001 00110101 10110110101 00110101 1111110111 1010101 1110111101 0011011 1110110101 0011011 10110110101 00110101 1010111101 10101111 101011011 10101101 101110101 0011011 10110110101 00110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,017 |
Words | 187 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 17, 8 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 372 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 92 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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