This is an analysis of the poem The Oldest Thing In London that begins with:
A thousand landmarks perish,
A hundred streets grow strange;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccccc Xdddefeff Xgfgfdfdd ehehcdcdd ijijikikk ifififIfI iXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101110 010111 0101110 110101 11010110 110101 1101110 011111 0101010110111 0100010 010001 0100010 010001 0100010 010001 1101010 0111011 0101010110101 1101110 110111 1111110 110001 1101110 111101 1101110 1011101 0101010111101 1101110 110111 1111110 010101 0101110 110001 1111110 110111 01010101101001 1111010 111101 1111010 110111 0101010 010101 1111010 010101 0101010110101 1100010 110101 1111110 010111 1101110 110101 1101010 010001 1101010 1111010 0101010011101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; whatso, and, of, london are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines river is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word river at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase her connects the lines.
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