This is an analysis of the poem Canada To England that begins with:
GONE are the days, old Warrior of the Seas,
When thine armed head, bent low to catch my voice,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaabcXdbefcgXhafg iejkgeede Xefkfb chgajegaadaeb gegfibbadXgXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,9,6,13,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011100001 1111110111 1101010011 1011010101 1011001101 1001010001 1101010110 1001010101 11010000101 110100101001 1101011001 1111010111 0011111101 11010110001 0101010001 10001010101 1001010101 0101000111 0111011011 1001110101 01010010001101 0111001101 1101010101 1111011101 0101011101 1110010101 1110010101 0100011111 1101110001 0001010101 1101011001 1101011101 1101110101 11111100111 1011010101 0101010101 10001010101 0111010101 1001010101 10110101001 0101010101 0100010001 0101010101 1101010101 1001000111 010000101 1101111101 1101111101 111111101 1101111101 1011010101 0101111101 0101100101 110010111001 1111010101 0101010100 11110101 1111101111 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 502
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, one, the, 'man are repeated.
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