This is an analysis of the poem News From The North that begins with:

As I went down by London Bridge
(And I not long on land),...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xaba cdbX eaca afeX agdg XfcX ahXh aedX XgeX XeeX aecX hahabX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11111101 111111 110100110 111101 11110101 110111 110101110 100111 11111111 111101 11010101 0100111 10111111 111101 11110101 110101 111111011 110111 111110011 011111 11111111 111110 01111111 111101 11010111 111101 101111100 011101 11101101 111101 11011110101 110001 11010111 110101 1111101 1100101 10111111 110111 1011100111 111110 11110111 011111 110110111 110110 10111111 101111 10111111 111001 1011101110 1100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less 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; i, he, and, no, so, there are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, there are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of News From The North;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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