This is an analysis of the poem Athabaska Dick that begins with:
When the boys come out from Lac Labiche in the lure of the early Spring,
To take the pay of the "Hudson's Bay", as their fathers did...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdee bfbfcece fXfXff XgXghXhXgg gbgbggggff fcfcbfbffififdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,6,10,10,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110110001001001 010100100101110001 1110110101110101 0011011010110101101101 101001001011011111 10110111100100111 11101010110101101 010010110100101 11111111111101111 11111001111110001 1111111011110101 1101001111100101 11010010111100101 11101011111100101 1111101101011001 1111111111111101 11111001011010101 1111011011110001 10101101111100101 1110111110011001 11101111111101101 11010011101010100 1011110111110101 111011001111101 1110111101111111 111100101110101 00111111110101010 11011101111101 101111101110111 111111110111011 11111111011111 11011101110111 11111111111101 11111111110111 01010101010111 11011100110101 01011101111111 01010100110101 11111101110101 11111101111111 11010101110101 11010011011111 11111111001101 11110101011101 10110101111111 11010101110101 11111101110111 11010101110101 110100010111101 11011101010111 110011011011111 110100011110111 11011101111101 11011101110101 11011111111001 11110001010011 11110101010101 11110111 101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 669
- Average number of words per stanza: 129
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 67 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, they, he, in, i, down, saw, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word dick at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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