This is an analysis of the poem Welcome To Our Canadian Spring that begins with:

We welcome thy coming, bright, sunny Spring,
To this snow-clad land of ours,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbXded cfgfhheh Xbgbbigi cjdjhafa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11011011001 0011101 1111100111 11101010 1101100101 010101 011101101 00101101 0101111111 1100101 1111101001 0110111 1101111101 1110111 1101101011 10101101 1111110101 11011010 0100101101 11001010 100100101 0110101 1100111111 0111101 1011111111 110111 10100111101 00101101 1110110101 1010111 101010101 01111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 305
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; thy, to, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to 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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