This is an analysis of the poem The Canoe that begins with:
My masters twain made me a bed
Of pine-boughs resinous, and cedar;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaccX dcaacdeeddff fXcfdd gbbXgfcgbbcc hiih jXXjkkll gmmgXclX cXcc ciic annaXcllc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,12,6,12,4,8,8,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 011100110 010111010 01011111 01011101 11110101 11111101 110100010 11011111 10100101 11010111 11010111 10111111 11011111 10111101 001101011 11011101 01011101 11010101 11010101 00010101 11010111 10011101 1011101 11010101 10110101 11010101 111101010 100111010 01111111 01010011 110111110 101100010 10111111 11110 111101010 110010 1101101110 11011111 1110101110 0101001110 10011101 11110101 100111010 111101110 10110111 110111111 0010101001 01010 11110 11110101 111111010 110101010 11011111 110110111 100100101 11110 01110 11010111 110101100 11100111 10010101 11110101 010111110 100101110 0110100101 01111101 0100111110 100111110 011011101 01010101 110111010 111101010 11101101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 74
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, his, on, its are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, on, and, the are repeated.
The author used the same words my, 'o, they, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Canoe;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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