This is an analysis of the poem The Barrel-Organ that begins with:
There's a barrel-organ carolling across a golden street
In the City as the sun sinks low; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABAbCACA dcdceded fdfdGDgd fHfHbDbd iCJC ickc eCXc jCac ICJk abaaaaB ibiiiib cBccccB jBjjjjb ABaaaaB Xkfkaffkbfk lKlm lKlm AbAaab CACA fcfcGDgd fHfHbDbd ICjX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,4,4,4,4,4,7,7,7,7,7,11,4,4,6,4,8,8,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101010100010101 001010111 101010101011101 101000111 101010100010101 101010101010101 111000101010101 00100110111 11010101010101 1101010101 11010101010101 1101010001 11010101010101 0101110101 001010101010101 1101010001 1101010 100101 0101110 110111 01010100 010101 11010101 010001 11101001 010101 11110001 010101 11010101 011111 11011101 110001 1101011101110111 110101110001010 1111010101010101 110101110001010 0101110111011101 010111011111010 1111110111010101 011111010101110 0100010111111111 111101111111010 010101111010110 1101101110111010 1101010101011001 111101111111010 1101010111011111 110101011100110 10101011101110111 110101110001010 1111010101010101 1101011100010101 11010101010101 001010111 101010101110101 101110010101 101011100011101 101100111010101 00110111 101011111000011 001010111 001010101010101 1010101000100111 001010100010101 1101110100010101 11000111 101011100010101 001010111 101010100010001 1011101000110001 111000100010111 111110101110001 00110111 101001100010001 001010111 101010101010101 111010101111101 11000111010101 111010101010101 10110111 101010100010101 001010111 101010101010101 111010111011101 101010101010101 11010101010101 00110111 1010101010 11101 1110101 10111 1011101 1101010 01110100 110101 0101111 01011100 111111010101 1010101001010 111101001110101 10101001010 1011101 101010111010 111101001110101 110101001010 11011111 101010100010101 0010101110011 101010101011101 101000100110101 0010100101011101 101000111 101010100010101 101010101010101 111000101010101 00100110111 11101010 011101 1101110 110111 01010100 010101 101010101 010101 11101001 010101 11110001 010101 11010101 011111 11110101 110001 10101011101110111 110101110001010 1111010101010101 1101011100010100
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 295
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 136
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, it's, now, i, in, lilac, time, go, down, to, kew, of, come, there's, his, he, it, once are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, go, the, of, there's are repeated.
The author used the same words the, there's, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words forgets, london, go at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Barrel-Organ;
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