Analysis of A Concert-Impromptu
James McIntyre 1828 (Forres) – 1906
The following impromptu was delivered in the Methodist Church Concert, March, 1883.
It was expected that several announced in bills world take part, but from various
causes they were not present. We were unexpectedly requested to fill one of the
vacencies. Doctor Gardiner delivered an address, showing how he had triumphed o'er
the great snow drifts during the remarkably severe winter then passing away, that we
thought his courage and perseverance was worthy of being commemorated in verse; and
the music of the White Brothers though simple, is natural, touching and sweet, and
reaches the heart more easily than some of the highly artistic styles now in vogue,
on arising, we first gave some recitations from the Poets and concluded with the
following Impromptu. It was of course impossible for me to have anticipated any of
the above occurrences, as the Doctors speech took the turn it did from the remarks
of a previous speaker.
Scheme | ABCDEFFGCHID |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01000101010001001101 11010110010111111100 101011010010001011110 1101001011101111010 0111100010001101100111 111000101101100100010 01010110110110010010 100111001110100101101 101011110101010001010 1000101111010011110100101 001010010101101111001 1010010 |
Characters | 931 |
Words | 157 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 64 |
Words per line (avg) | 13 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 762 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 155 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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