Analysis of Dairy Ode
James McIntyre 1828 (Forres) – 1906
Our muse it doth refuse to sing
Of cheese made early in the spring,
When cows give milk from spring fodder
You cannot make a good cheddar.
The quality is often vile
Of cheese that is made in April,
Therefore we think for that reason
You should make later in the season.
Cheese making you should delay
Until about the first of May.
Then cows do feed on grassy field
And rich milk they abundant yield.
Ontario cannot compete
With the Northwest in raising wheat,
For cheaper there they it can grow
So price in future may be low.
Though this a hardship it may seem,
Rejoice that you have got the cream,
In this land of milk and honey,
Where dairy farmers do make money.
Utensils must be clean and sweet,
So cheese with first class can compete,
And daily polish up milk pans,
Take pains with vats and with milk cans.
And it is important matter
To allow no stagnant water,
But water from pure well or stream
The cow must drink to give pure cream.
Canadian breeds 'tis best to pair
With breeds from the shire of Ayr,
They thrive on our Canadian feed
And are for milking splendid breed.
Though 'gainst spring cheese some do mutter,
Yet spring milk also makes bad butter,
Then there doth arise the query
How to utilize it in the dairy.
The milk it floats in great spring flood
Though it is not so rich and good,
Let us be thankful for this stream
Of milk and also curds and cream.
All dairymen their highest aims
Should be to make the vale of Thames,
Where milk doth so abundant flow,
Dairyland of Ontario.
Scheme | AABB XXCC DDEE FFGG HHII FFJJ BBHH XXKK BBII XXHH XXGG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (64%) |
Metre | 101110111 11110001 11111110 11010110 01001101 11111010 1111110 111100010 1101101 01010111 11111101 01110101 01001001 1010101 11011111 11010111 11010111 01111101 01111010 110101110 01011101 11111101 01010111 11110111 01101010 10111010 11011111 01111111 010011111 1110111 1111001001 01110101 11111110 111101110 11101010 111010010 01110111 11111101 11110111 11010101 11001101 11110111 11110101 110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,462 |
Words | 284 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 44 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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