This is an analysis of the poem Canadian Folksong that begins with:
The doors are shut, the windows fast;
Outside the gust is driving past, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbCD eeXXCD aaffCD gghhCD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101 11010101 110100101 11010101 100100101 10010100 01111111 011100101 010110111 1100101010 100100101 10010100 0101101001 10110101 0100110101 1010100101 100100101 10010100 0100100101 111100101 0110101101 10101001011 100100101 10010100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 228
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words outside, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word merrily at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Canadian Folksong;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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