Analysis of I Like Canadians
Ernest Hemingway 1899 ( Oak Park, Illinois) – 1961 ( Ketchum, Idaho)
By A Foreigner
I like Canadians.
They are so unlike Americans.
They go home at night.
Their cigarettes don't smell bad.
Their hats fit.
They really believe that they won the war.
They don't believe in Literature.
They think Art has been exaggerated.
But they are wonderful on ice skates.
A few of them are very rich.
But when they are rich they buy more horses
Than motor cars.
Chicago calls Toronto a puritan town.
But both boxing and horse-racing are illegal
In Chicago.
Nobody works on Sunday.
Nobody.
That doesn't make me mad.
There is only one Woodbine.
But were you ever at Blue Bonnets?
If you kill somebody with a motor car in Ontario
You are liable to go to jail.
So it isn't done.
There have been over 500 people killed by motor cars
In Chicago
So far this year.
It is hard to get rich in Canada.
But it is easy to make money.
There are too many tea rooms.
But, then, there are no cabarets.
If you tip a waiter a quarter
He says 'Thank you.'
Instead of calling the bouncer.
They let women stand up in the street cars.
Even if they are good-looking.
They are all in a hurry to get home to supper
And their radio sets.
They are a fine people.
I like them.
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (28%) Etheree (25%) |
Metre | 10100 110100 111010100 11111 101111 111 1100111101 110101000 111110100 111100111 01111101 1111111110 1101 01101001001 111001101010 001 1111 1 110111 111011 10110111 111101010100100 111001111 11101 111101011101 001 1111 1111110100 111101110 1111011 1111101 111010010 1111 01110010 1110110011 10111110 1110010111110 01101 110110 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,132 |
Words | 226 |
Sentences | 33 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 39 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 450 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 112 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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