This is an analysis of A Canadian National Song by Thomas Cowherd.
O, no; I'm not an Englishman,
Though it is something great…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbadXe XfffbgXg afhfciii b Xiji kihXcgXg ijajgdfe kagaXjXjdibi
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,1,4,8,8,12,
- Metre: 11011100 100101 01111101 110101 10111100 111101 110101001 010100 11110110 111101 11010001 110101 111110101 100111 110101010 110101 11011100 1101010 110010111 0111010 110100111 011101 11111101 0111101 110101100100110111101101101010100010010101010001001111001001010010010111101100001110100101011111110001101110101010111101010100110 11110100 010101 10100100 110101 11110101 110011 1101001 00100110 11100101 110101 11010101 111101 11100101 110101 11111101 011101 11111111 110110 10111011 111100 111101001 010101 11010101 010111 110111010 110101 11010101 110111 01011100 010111 010111001 0111001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 59
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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