This is an analysis of the poem Victoria Park And Caledonian Games that begins with:

Lines on the naming of Victoria Park, on Queen's Birthday,
1881. The ceremony was performed by Thomas Brown,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abb ccXa dddd eebb ffgg ccXXXccff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110100010011111 1010101011101 110001 11110101 101001001 11111101 11010111 01000001 01100111 00101010 11011010 11000101 01111111 110011101 11011111 11001101 10110101 11010101 11010111 1011011 11000101 10110010 111110101 11111111 01010101 11110101 11111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and is repeated.

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