This is an analysis of The Falls Of The Chaudiere, Ottawa by Charles Sangster.
I have laid my cheek to Nature's, placed my puny hand in hers,
Felt a kindred spirit warming all the life-blood of my face,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcX babaedeX fcfc ghgh haha eaea acXc bibi ciXi aXXa bibi iXij fcfc kiXiXhlX aXXaahbX cXlamXmX anan abab oaoa hXhk amam mama hfhf pfpf ajXX amamhdhX fafaedeX
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,8,8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,8,
- Metre: 111110101110100 101010101011011 101010110010100 1001101010100011 111010101010101 101000101011001 101000101000101 111010100010010 11111001110011111 111110101010101 100100101011101 101110101000111 111010101000101 1010101001010101 101010101000101 101010100010010 101111 1101000101 1011001011 10010101001 111101 11010101010 1101000101 11010001010 110101 0101010101 1111011101 0101011101 011101 0111010111 0011010111 01011101001 010000 1101010101 1101011101 1111010101 010001 1101110001 1111110101 1101111101 111101 0101010101 1001011101 1101111101 110101 01010101000 01010101001 11010101110 1111010 1111010101 11110100010 1101000101 110101 01100010101 1111010001 1101010100 010001 1101000101 1001010101 11001000101 10101110 0010101 11111110 1011101 001001110 100011 101001010 1010101 00101010 1011101 001010100 0010101 10101011 1010111 10101010 10010101 110101010 10101000 00101010 1010101 10111011 1011001 10111111 0011101 1111110 1101000101 011100101010 1001000101 110101 0101110001 1011001101 1001110111 110111 1001000101 1011000101 0101001101 1010101 11000001010 0101111011 10011111010 010101 0111010101 1101010101 1011011101 110011 0101010101 1011010101 1101010001 100111 0100010111 1111010101 1111110101 010101 11010101010 1101010111 01011001010 010001 10100010100 01010001010 010101010100 111010100011100 1000010101000101 101010101010101 101110101010101 101010101011111 100110101000101 101010101110111 001000100010010 10010101001111111 100011100010101 101010101110100 01010011101000101 101010101000101 0111111010010101 100110101011101 101110100010010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 27
- Lines: 136
Repeated words/phrases
my, of, her, his, and, in, by
Anaphora
his, the
Anadiplosis
man
