This is an analysis of the poem Song For Canada that begins with:
Sons of the race whose sires
Aroused the martial flame... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaabacddceFAAF ffeefdghhgE FAAF daiiaheaaeEFAAF acbbcXdhhdEFAAF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,11,4,15,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111 010101 1101 011 111101 011111 011111 1101 01001 111101 11010101 011101 01010 1111 110101 111111 111101 0101 1101 110101 110101 101101 1111 1111 010001 11010101 011101 01010 1111 111001 110101 011101 1101 1111 110101 111101 110111 0101 1101 110101 11010101 011101 01010 1111 110101 100100 111111 1101 1101 010101 1111101 010101 1101 0101 1010101 11010101 011101 01010 1111 111001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 304
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, our are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word land at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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