This is an analysis of the poem Galt And Dunlop that begins with:

Galt was manager of the Canada Companies Lands, and a
Scottish Novelist, Dunlop was once a leading British...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXX aabb bbccdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110000100100110 10100111101010 1001100101100 11101110 1110110 01110111 01110001 01110011 1101100111 01111111 11110110 110100101 10110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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