This is an analysis of the poem A London Fête that begins with:

All night fell hammers, shock on shock;
With echoes Newgate's granite clang'd:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXabccddccbbeeffggXbXghihicccbfbXifiiggiiaaggff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 47,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110111 0101001010 01011101 11011001 11010101 01011101 10111101 11111111 10100101 010101101 10101010 110101010 01010111 10100101 110011110 11111010 01010101 10010101 110111010 101101010 01011101 11010101 10011101 10011101 11110101 10010111 01111101 11011111 011100101 01111101 0101010010 11111111 1101001100 11001000 11011001010 10110101 010011111 01010101 01010101 01110101 01110101 010101001 01010101 11011101 11110101 111101010 1101010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1764
  • Average number of words per stanza: 312
  • Amount of lines: 47
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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