This is an analysis of the poem Deux Centième Anniversaire De L'Arrivée De Mgr De Montmorency-Laval En Canada that begins with:

O Canada, plus beau qu'un rayon de l'aurore,
Te souvient-il des jours où, tout couvert encore...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabXXX XXXXXc XXXXXX XXXXXX XXdXXe XXXXXX XXXXfX XXXXXX XXXbbX XaXXXX XgXbXX eXXXXc XXXXXg bXXXXX XXXXXX bbXXXX dXaXcX XcXXXX XeXXXX XXXaXcX XXXXXX XgXXXX XXbXab XXXXgX fXXbbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,7,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100111010010 110111111011 01010001101 11011111100 1111110110 11110110110 1101111101110 010100011010 1100101011 1101101110 110100111010 11001110001 110111111100 1011101011100 10100101100 1111110111 101011100011 011010111100 110111110110 110111111 011101100110 11011111100 111101110 1010011001 1110010110100 11101110100 101011110111 11110110110 11101100110 101011111 11010111111 10110011010 10011000110 110111101110 111110101110 1001001101 110111111100 110110110100 10011111 1000111101000 11011010011 1011011011 101111010101 110100110110 10111111000 10010111010 011110110010 10101101001010 100111101110 1001011111 1100101111 11111111011 0101011110 11100111111 1111110110 111100110101 10101110 1011111110 110100011010 0111111101100 011011110 1011111001 111010110010 11101101011 11110101110 1101101110 0110101111 10111011001 1111001010 111100110111 11010011110 1101100101 1001101101000 101100110100 1111010010 11011010110 11011011110 101111101110 11100100011 1010101111 110100010101 101001011 111101111 111001110011 11101111100 1101101110100 111010111 11101110100 11110100100 11101100011 1110101011 111000111011 11110110100 111111110010 11101010111 110101100110 110110110011 111110010111 110101111001 11111110100 011101100100 1111100010 11011111010 11011110010 111101110110 101110100111 11001111011 1101100111110 11111111 1110011111 1011011010 111100110110 111010100110 11111111010 111110110110 111101111 111010110 111110111111 111011110 10110110001 1001010010 111011110 10011001101 11100110110 101111010100 010001101010 11101101100 01111011100 1110111101 1111100010 1001001110 101011111 110110100010 1110110110 11010110 100101011110 111101010110 1101011110101 11101111011 1011111100 101101110 011100111000 110111100010 110010100001 11011011100 1011111101010 111001111000 11010111010 11011111001 111011100100 111001111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 25
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 151
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; des, de, tes, la, et, les, sa, nous are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words deux, nous are repeated.

    The author used the same words te, si at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ves, te, re, es are repeated).

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