This is an analysis of the poem A Street Riot that begins with:
Poor, hapless souls! at whom we stand aghast,
As at invading armies sweeping by —... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabXa cdcdbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101111101 1101010101 11010111001 0111011111 1101010101 0101010111 10011111100 1011011101 1111010101 1111010101 1111110101 1111010111 10011101001 1101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; at is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, are are repeated.
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