This is an analysis of the poem M'sieu Smit that begins with:

THE ADVENTURES OF AN ENGLISHMAN IN THE CANADIAN WOODS.
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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXa bXbX XcXX adXd efef gXXh ijdj XXXX XXXX XXkl Xdam XXXX cXXX mXXX mgXX mXXX XmdX XnXX XXXc Xfof XdXX dgdX XfhX cbcb mhXX XdbX dgdg oloX akXX hXhd pXdX iXdX XcXX gggX dXdX XXnl hXhX iXXc XXXk gpgd XXXc XdgX XXXc lXln cgcg XkXX Xaca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0010011000001001 1100101110 1110110110 1111111110 111111011 111110110 11101111 1011110110 1010101110 111101101 1110111001 11111110100 1110110100 1011100101 111111111 1111111101 1101101101 111110111 111010101 111011111 1101101001 111101101 1111011011 111010110 1111110111 11111110100 1111101101 11100111101 1101111101 1010100110 0111110010 1101111110 1111110100 011011101 1111011111 111101110 1111101110 111111111 10110011110 0111111110 1101100111 011100111 11110101101 11111001100 111101111 1111011111 101111011 111011111 1111111100 1110101111 111011111 111111010 1111111110 1101110111 101111010 111001101 10101110000 111111111 1111001011 110111111 1010110111 0111111111 11111101111 1111110011 110111111 111111110 1111101111 11110111111 10110110111 1010111111 1001111111 1100101110 1111011010 1011011111 111100111 1111010111 1110100111 1111111011 1110110111 0111101001 1100111111 01111010 110100101 11110110 1011011101 1110111011 1111110101 1100110111 1111101101 11110110101 0101110111 1110111101 01111101101 1011101111 11111110 0101101101 10011010110 111101010 101010100111 11111101000 1111101111 111100111 1111101011 111111111 1110111110 111010101 1111110111 0101100101 1111111111 1010111111 1101110101 111111101 1111110110 1101111101 10111101101 1110011111 11111011100 111111111 10101111100 1010101111 1101110101 1111110101 0110110110 111111101 11010111111 1111111110 11111111111 1111111111 11111011110 1111111111 1111011100 11111100101 1110111111 1101111101 1111111111 1111001011 11111110001 1111010101 101111100 11111011111 1111110101 1111101110 100011111 1111011111 111011101 111110110111 1100011111 1111101101 1110101011 1110111110 1111111111 011010111 0110101100 110111111 1111011100 1011111110 11110101101 1111011111 1110101101 1111111111 01111110111 101111111 1100110111 111111101 1111111001 1101010101 11111111 1100110111 10101101101 111111110 1011011111 111110101 11110101010 1110111111 1110101100 1111111111 1111011101 111110101 1111110111 1111100111 1111111111 1111011110 1011011111 0111111110 11011011100 1110111111 1111101101 1010011101 111111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 48
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 190
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, de, an', we, wan, on, for, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, 'i, an' are repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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