This is an analysis of the poem Old Town Types No. 28 - Lah-Di-Dah Lane that begins with:
In the old town traditions - as greybeards will explain
One epic tale immortalises Lah-di-dah Lane,... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbXaa bbaabbaa bbccbXaa ddeebXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0011010110001 1101100001111 1001011000111 11110101011101 001110100011101 01010110010010 01011101110101 10111011111111 01000100011101 1110101010010011 111110101011101 101011001010001 01110011010101 11011111110111 111011101110011 11111010111111 01011101011101 11011001011111 101011101010001 01010001101101 11010100011101 01010101010010 11011101010101 11111110101111 01010101010101 11110101010101 0111101010101 11010101110101 11010100011101 01010101010010 110110001100101 1111010101111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 470
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word his is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word lane at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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