This is an analysis of the poem La Paloma In London that begins with:

About Soho we went before the light;
We went, unresting six, craving new fun, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 0110110101 1110011011 11110010101 01001011111 0111110111 1101110101 1101010101 01000101001 1011111101 11011101110 0101110101 11010101110 10111011010 1111011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 617
  • Average number of words per stanza: 110
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; new is repeated.

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