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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