This is an analysis of the poem Canadian Born that begins with:
We first saw light in Canada, the land beloved of God;
We are the pulse of Canada, its marrow and its blood: ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabB ccbB ddbB eebBXeebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111101000101001 11010100010101 11010100110111 11010100010101 10110101110101 11110011010111 11110101010101 11010100010101 1101110110111 111111001101001 110010101010111 11110100010101 11011101011101 111101001101001 11111101011101 11110100010101 0111110010101 01000101110101 11011101010111 11010100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, canada, of, and, few, our, no, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word flag at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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