This is an analysis of the poem Mrs Albion You'Ve Got A Lovely Daughter (For Allen Ginsberg) that begins with:

Albion's most lovely daughter sat on the banks of the Mersey dangling her landing stage in the water.
The daughters of Albion...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a BbXcdc BXXbeeceX X BXdeX ee bXXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,9,1,5,2,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110101101001010001010010 0100100 010110111010 10110001010 10101011010101 1011101001 101111010101 0100100 1011101100100 10111001010111 10010111011 1011101110 11101001011 10110010100000010001 11010010110 100101011101 01001001001001111011 0100100 1001100011 10001110 10111010110 1001110011000 100101101 00100101 101010 101010 10110 101010 101001101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; in, their, an' are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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

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  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
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