This is an analysis of the poem Benedictio Domini that begins with:
Without, the sullen noises of the street!
The voice of London, inarticulate,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaX bcbc baba adad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010001 0101000100 1110010001 01010000100 1001110100 1011111111 1100110111 0101000101 1001110101 1101010001 11110101001 0111001101 1101010101 10011100010 1101001101 11110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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 is repeated.
The author used the same word dark at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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