This is an analysis of the poem The Old Towers Of Mount Royal, Or Ville Marie that begins with:

On proud Mount Royal’s Eastern side,
In view of St. Lawrence’s silver tide,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabbcc ddeeccdd ffaabbgg eegXbbff aaffhhee ccffggii jjffaaaaXhhaaffff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11110101 0101100101 1111001001 010101101 100111001 1100100111 011111011 0101001001 110100111 101111101 10100101111 1010111101 1101100111 1010100101 111010101 1100101101 010100101 0110100101 0100111011 10101110101 1111110101 11110111 1101111001 1111110101 1111110001 101101101 101111101 1001100100 1001011011 111100111 1110010111 1101110001 1100100101 110110101 1101100101 1101100111 1000101101 10011010011 1100101001 10100100101 0101100101 10100101101 1100101101 101010011 1010100101 1100100111 1101011011 110100111 11001010101 1100110111 1100100101 0101100101 110100111 0010100111 1010010111 1010110111 0110111101 01011101 101100101 0100111001 101111011 110010011 101111111 010100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 328
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; of, their, s, his are repeated.

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  • summary of The Old Towers Of Mount Royal, Or Ville Marie;
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  • history of its creation;
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