This is an analysis of the poem Nitrates that begins with:
All alone I went a-walking by the London Docks one day,
For to see the ships discharging in the basins where they lay,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXddee bXffeeaa ddbXaaddbbggccffeeeehhddXeeffaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,31,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110101010111 101010100010111 1011111110100101 100110101011101 101011101110111 101110101010101 101011101010111 111110100110101 111111111110111 101110101110101 101011111000111 101111100010100 101000100010101 111111101111001 011011100110111 101111100110111 011010100011101 101010111010101 10101010001010111 101000101011110 101010110010101 101000101011100 101010101010101 111110100011111 101010100110111 101111111110111 111011100010101 101011100010101 101110111010101 1011001001010101 101011101111101 101010101010101 1011111010101001 101001101010101 101111101111101 111111101111101 101011101011101 011010111011101 1010111101010111 101111100011101 101000101110101 101010101010101 101010110010101 101011101110111 101010110010101 101011111110111 101110111010101 101010101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 767
- Average number of words per stanza: 144
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; there, and, of, in, all, to, nor, neither, it, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, all, and, i are repeated.
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