This is an analysis of the poem The Canadian Magpie that begins with:
Mos' ev'ryman lak de robin
An' it's pleasan' for hear heem sing,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbaaXX XXaXdecX ceXXfXXg XXfXXhXh cgXgdeXe agagchch aXdaXXdX XefeXiXi cfaffegfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001010 10101111 10010110 1011010001 011101010 10110101 111111011 0101110 1111010 100101 1111011110 01111011 1001110 101110 11111010 11110 010011110 110111 01111101 1101101 11110001 1100110 11001110 1110111 11001101 0101101 11011010 1110111 111010110 1100101 11101110 1101111 11111010 1110111 01001110 0110101 101111010 0101111 11001 1110111 11111110 101101101 11011111 1111101 011011110 01110100 11011010 1110111 1111110 1011010 111101010 1110111 1111010 1111101 111101110 1110100 01001111 1111101 11111010 1110111 1101101 11100111 1001011 01101 111001010 100101 100011010 1111111 111101010 10010101 101110111 10111 1
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 242
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 73
- 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, an' are repeated.
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