This is an analysis of the poem A Civic Holiday Trip that begins with:

Lines on a civic holiday trip on the Grand Trunk,
to Toronto, August, 1882. Address to Mr. Hodge,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXX aaXbaaccddbbdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010111011 0010101110101 01001010011100 0100101001 1101110011 0101110101 1101010101 1111101001 101010101 11010010 011010101 11101010 111101010 100111001 1100100111 110101010 010101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 327
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on is repeated.

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