This is an analysis of the poem To Canada that begins with:

OUR neighbor of the undefended bound,
Friend of the hundred years of peace, our kin,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdXeXefgfghihijkjkadadcbcb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1100010001 1001000111 100100100101 0011110101 1110110001 0101110111 11010101001 0101011101 1011001101 01011111001 01001110111 1100010101 1111010101 0101011101 0101010111 1101111001 0101010101 01011101001 1001010101 1111110001 1111010101 0111010101 10110110101 0101010101 1111010101 01110101001 1101010101 11010111011 0110010101 1001010101 10011010101 1001010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1379
  • Average number of words per stanza: 239
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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, for are repeated.

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  • summary of To Canada;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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