This is an analysis of the poem The Canadian Country Doctor that begins with:

I s'pose mos'ev'ry body t'ink hees job's
about de hardes'... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabacXX XXXcaXdX efcgXhXX becciiXX feXbjXbb XeibcedX XXXcaeXc XXkbceXb dgdXahXa fXfkfack cbiXbajX heXcbXlc lXdXceXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110010111 01010 00111010000 11101 001001010100 011 11010101101 11 1111111111 101010 11110101011 1101 11011101011 11101 11110111111 1101 0111010101010 1011 1111101010 1101 111101011110 1110 11111101 010101 10111010111 01010 10111010010 101 11111110101 01011 11010101111 100 11101010111 111010 1011101011 0111 101110101111 010 110110101101 01 100110101011 010 11111010001 11100 1110111010 111010 1011111011 10111 101011110101 11010 10101010101 0101 11101010101 01010 11010101101 01 10111010101 11011 011110111 10111 110101111010 10 11101010101 0100 1111010111 11010 1110111111 1110 111110101110 110 0111110101 101 1010100101101 11010 11011101111 10001 1111110111 101011 101101110111 1101 101011110110 1110 101011100101 11 1111111011110 0101 101111111111 10 101011101010 1010 1011100111 010101 101110101110 1101 11011110111 10101 10110111011101 011 10111011101 10 111110110 111010 1110111001100 111
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 104
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, 's are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.

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