This is an analysis of the poem Diplomatist that begins with:
I live on Canada en Bas —
De fines' lan' you see —...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba cdcX aeee XXab cXeX fgfg Xchc Xifi XhjX XfXf XbXb kdXX abbb Xfbf fiXX jdad Xbgb XXkX cXdX lkck jXab dfaX dlgX aibX bXfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110011 010111 1110101 111101 11111111 100111 11110101 111011 11110101 110111 0111111 111101 11110101 011101 11111101 111101 11011101 111110 1111111 111111 11110111 010101 11111001 101101 11111101 111101 11011101 011101 1001001110 111111 11111101 110100 11110111 111101 11010011 111101 10111110 010001 11011101 110011 11011101 011101 11111111 101111 11110110 110101 11101101 1110000 11110101 110101 11111100 111101 1111100 111111 11010101 110101 11110111 1000011 11100111 1111000 11011101 111101 11011001 010101 1110101 0101001 11010101 110111 11011111 1111001 11101111 111101 1111111 111110 11110101 111111 11110101 110101 1111111 111101 110100111 111011 11111101 110111 1101101001 110101 10010111 110101 11111111 110111 11111101 010111 10110111 111111 01111111 111110 11011101 111110 01010101 10001
- Amount of stanzas: 25
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 100
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, for, she, an' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, for, she, an' are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word '' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Diplomatist;
- central theme;
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More information about poems by Alexander MacGregor Rose
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