This is an analysis of the poem Spring In Canada that begins with:

SEASON of life's renewal, love's rebirth,
And all hope's young espousals; in your dream, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aba cadcd dbdbddb efef dfcdfX aghhgigi jadjddd Xkbbk Xddd deXeccf jeedd edhh lalmmnanXnhfhffhf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,7,4,6,8,7,5,4,7,5,4,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001010101 1111100011 11110101001 1011010111 011110101 010101111 1100011111 1001010101 1111010111 11010101001 1101010101 1010011101 0101001101 10010001111 1001001101 0111110101 1111001001 1111110101 1101010101 1101111101 1111001 1101000101 110010011101 1101010111 010111001110 0111110101 11110001001 0101010111 11001111111 1111010101 11001111111 1101101001001 010111 1100110111 010111 100100111 1101110111 1101010101 110100101110 110101010010 1001010100 0101010111 10010010111 11010011111 011111 11010111110 1011010101 1011010111 010111 10010111001 1111010111 10011010000 1111010001 1100011101 10110001101 110100100001 10111111001 1111010101 100110000111 1111010111 11010101010 1111010101 10010011111 1001011111 11010010001 1011010101 101011111 101100011 1011011111 0101110101 1001010101 010010101001 01010000100 01110001001 1111110111 1111111101 11011010101 1101000101 11110010111 1101010101 01011010101 0101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 279
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 82
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, months are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, and, months, the are repeated.

    The author used the same word far at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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