This is an analysis of the poem Departed Statesmen that begins with:
Lines on our departed Canadian Statesmen, with a glance at our two living leaders.
Joseph Howe, none higher stood than thou, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aabb ccdd eeff ggdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110100100100011111010 101110111 11010101 100111011 01111101 1100001101 11110101 11011101 101001001 1111001 01010101 11111001 010110001001 100110111 10111011 1110101011 10100100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; you is repeated.
The author used the same word george at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase thou connects the lines.
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