This is an analysis of the poem Hope Macniven that begins with:

Mr. Hope Macniven, of Ingersoll, had the pleasure in his
younger days, during the first quarter of the present...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaaXbcXXXXbXdcacdXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011000100101000 1011001100001 10001011010001100 1010111010110101011010101101110 1110111001000101010 111101000101111011 1010010001000101100101 111010110010100100 10011010110000111101000 1001011011101111 1011010010100111000100 1101011011000010110 1001010011101101001010 00100101010100111101 01001100100101000101 10101011010100101001 110100110100010001010 110110001000101101 11001011010100110100 10011001011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1463
  • Average number of words per stanza: 249
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 72 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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