This is an analysis of the poem The Canadian Lullaby that begins with:
Tamaracks ! carry your heads on high !
Cedars ! trail your robes on the sod ! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a babccb a dadbbd efe fggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,1,6,3,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100101111 10111101 101111011 100101101 100100101 0100111101 000101111 100101101 101100111 111111001 110100101 100100101 111100101 110100111 10011111 11111001 1111100101 1100101101 1001001001 10010110 11001001001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, swing are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word carry is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase rock connects the lines.
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- summary of The Canadian Lullaby;
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