This is an analysis of the poem Brantford that begins with:
In these sketches of towns in Western Ontario, we are not vain enough
to suppose that because we have produced some rhymes thereon...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aabb ccdd dddd eedd ffXdXddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110010100100111101 00110111011101 11111000110101000101 10101000010011111 10110101 110100101 110100110 01101010 10110101 0100101 01111101 01000101 10110101 11001001 11011001 011010001 11010101 11010011 11010101 01010101 110111001 01010101 10110011 00010101 01010111 01010100 11000101 101000111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; we, in, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word brant at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Brantford;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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