This is an analysis of the poem Canadian Sports And Games And Plays that begins with:
Burns sang of joys of Hallowe'en,
But in Canada is oft seen...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccccddeebb ffccggeeaahhaa ccggaa iiffee iijjddXeeffaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 10100011 11110111 11010101 11010101 01110101 10110001 11010111 11110101 11010101 111110111 00111101 10011101 01111101 11010111 111100111 11011101 11010111 10011101 11011101 10011001 11010011 10101010 101001010 11111101 11110101 10100010 11111010 11111111 11110111 111010101 11101010 11010101 00110010 11011101 01010101 11011101 10010101 10010011 010010111 11010101 01111100 01010111 010100111 0010011 11010101 01010111 01101101 10101101 100101001 10010111 101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 297
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, he, and, they, to, ice are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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