This is an analysis of the poem A Word From Canada that begins with:
Lest it be said,
One sits at ease... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbb caaaa a Xddd bceee c ffff gbXXX b hhhh aahhh a dddd hiaaa i jjjj aklll k aaaa gjhhh Xj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,1,4,5,1,4,5,1,4,5,1,4,5,1,4,5,1,4,5,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001 1111 10010101 11111101 11111101 0111 11110111 11110101 11010111 01110110 11010001 01010100 11010111 110100111 11110111 1011 11010111 01010101 01011111 11000101 10111101 111101101 10011101 11011101 10011100 1111 10110001 11010110 10110111 11010100 11010111 11011101 11110101 01111111 01011111 1111 01111011 11111111 11111001 101101111 11011111 111101001 101100001 11111111 10010111 0101 01000100 11010111 00110011 11010101 10101101 11111111 01110101 01110100 11111001 1101 01011101 11111011 111111001 11111111 010100101 11011101 11010100 10111101 01110101 1001 01010101 01010101 01000111 11010101 101111
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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, they, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are 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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