This is an analysis of the poem Our Canal that begins with:
To Colonel Goethals and the Other Laborers in the Canal Zone
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bCdXefefgdgdDHHD FdffdgiXccigaFccjjf hchckkleelgmgXmncanceeX FcfmemegegofoF ddeepddpjXjgffnnqhqhnanX FjfjcfcffXF drcrdXmdmdgagaddXjje dodXocXbCfcdcDHHD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,16,19,23,14,24,11,20,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101010000011 01010101 110010101 01110101 11100100 10111101 10110101 11011101 01100011 11010101 00110111 11011101 11000101 11011101 110100010 111111110 111101 111101 1101101 100101 110101 10100101 100111 101101 101100 1010101 111111 1110111 1010111 00101101 111101 11011011 1100101 000111 101111 111111 111101110 011101 1111010 0111001 110101 1110101 1100101 011101 110111 111101 110111 100101 010101 111110 0101000 11110100101 010101 0011001110 1 0100100100101 01010101001 1001010101 11110001010 1111101 11011 01100101 01100101 0110101 10001000 0100111 1001110 1100100 1011010 110100 100101 111100 111101 100111 1001001 100110 101101 111101 11110011 110111 1011001 111101 10101101 0100101 0100101 1011001 0101111 0100101 1110111 10100101 1111010 100101 1011010 1101010101 10111001001 11110100011 1010010001 1111101 11011 0111101 10100111 0110101 00111001 00101111 11001011 1100101 0101101 111101 111101 1011001 11111011 110101 10100101 1100100 111111 100101 1101001 10101001 11100101 0110101 0101101 00100101 1110101 00110101 10111101 1011111 1111101 010011 1111100111 11110101010 0111110001 01001010100 01111111010 10010100101 11010101 110010101 10111101 11011101 11111111 11110001 11011101 110100010 111111110 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 476
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 145
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; and, with, your, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, to, the, o are repeated.
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- summary of Our Canal;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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