Poem Analysis of De Nice Leetle Canadienne by William Henry Drummond for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem De Nice Leetle Canadienne that begins with:

1 You can pass on de worl' w'erever you lak,
2 Tak' de steamboat for go Angleterre, ... full text

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Rhyme scheme: aXabcdcd cdXdXXXd ceceddXd bXbceded eefefdcd
Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 111110110011 1101111100 11110111111 111101111 111110111101 111111101 1111111111101 10110101 11101111110 101011111 11100101111 1111011101 111111101010 111111111 111011111011 11110101 111110001001 111111111 111010101111 1110011111 11111111010 111011011 1111111011010 111110101 1110111101101 11111110 1111011111 111011101 1111111111001 111111111 111111001011 100110101 1111111111111 1011101101 11011111111 111011111 11011111011 1101011001 11110111101 101110101
Amount of stanzas: 5
Average number of symbols per stanza: 367
Average number of words per stanza: 74
Amount of lines: 40
Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, you, she, for, an' are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word canadienne at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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