Analysis of Mrs Mavor
From Britain for adventure
She came with husband new
Lewis with family fortunes
But devilish bottles too.
She prayed for his conversion
But took a baby’s charms
To deaden his addiction
With rapture in his arms.
A year and half so joyful
The mountains showed them Life.
And never a happier journey
This husband, babe and wife.
But mining has its terrors
The gaping dark below
And shopkeep Lewis wanted
A chance the mines to know.
Explosion…that the mishap
And three men caught so still.
And preacher Craig
Would rue the task.
A bereaved wife to tell.
She stayed, she stayed
With miners lone
Her Shop a sacred place.
She sang, angelic were the tones
That lifted each sad face.
They missed their kin
They missed the change
They missed the sun above.
But Mrs Mavor for each one
An instrument of Love.
An many came to know her Christ
Her strength, her hope Above.
(These images come thanks to the gracious pen of prairie Presbyterian Pastor Charles William Gordon aka Ralph Connor 1860-1937.)
Scheme | ABXBCDCDXEXE XFXFXXXXX XXGXGXXHCHXH A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010 111101 10110010 110101 1111010 11011 1101010 110011 0101110 010111 010010010 110101 1101110 010101 011010 010111 010101 011111 0101 1101 001111 1111 1101 010101 1110001 110111 1111 1101 110101 1101111 110011 11011101 010101 110011101011100100101101010110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 995 |
Words | 192 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 9, 12, 1 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 198 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
About this poem
A heroic character in Ralph Connors’ story Black Rock, a tale of the Selkirks
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Written on July 17, 2023
Submitted by dougb.19255 on July 17, 2023
Modified by dougb.19255 on July 17, 2023
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