Analysis of Canada, 1882.
John Campbell 1845 – 1914
"Are hearts here strong enough to found
A glorious people's sway?"
Ask of our rivers as they bound
From hill to plain, or ocean-sound,
If they are strong to-day?
If weakness in their floods be found,
Then may ye answer "Nay!"
"Is union yours? may foeman's might
Your love ne'er break or chain?"
Go see if o'er our land the flight
Of Spring be stayed by blast or blight;
If Fall bring never grain;
If Summer suns deny their light,
Then may our hope be vain!
"Yet far too cramped the narrow space
Your country's rule can own?"
Ah! travel all its bounds and trace
Each Alp unto its fertile base,
Our realm of forests lone,
Our world of prairie, like the face
Of ocean, hardly known!
"Yet for the arts to find a shrine,
Too rough, I ween, and rude?"
Yea, if you find no flower divine
With prairie grass or hardy pine.
No lilies with the wood,
Or on the water-meadows' line
No purple Iris' flood!
"You deem a nation here shall stand,
United, great, and free?"
Yes, see how Liberty's own hand
With ours the continent hath spanned,
Strong-arched, from sea to sea:
Our Canada's her chosen land,
Her roof and crown to be!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111 0100101 111010111 11111101 111111 11001111 111101 1101111 111111 1111010101 11111111 111101 11010111 1110111 11110101 110111 11011101 11101101 1011101 101110101 110101 11011101 111101 111111001 11011101 110101 1101011 110101 11010111 010101 11110011 110010011 111111 101000101 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,090 |
Words | 217 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 169 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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