This is an analysis of the poem Earthquake In London that begins with:
For sothe this was a Lord to drede,
So sodeynly mad mon agast;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXbab XXXXcbcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 11001110 011101111 1101101111 10100101 101100111 100100111 111110001 0100010001 01001011 11101100 1100011011 1111101 1010101 11110111 11011001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 592
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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