This is an analysis of the poem In London that begins with:
When I look out on London's teeming streets,
On grim grey houses, and on leaden skies, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBcdbefbgh babheefhhbaii ehgjbfebklfbXejXbkXlaXbahglg iihmdaBflgbfbbmXaiegcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,13,28,22,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111110101 1111011101 1101111111 1101011100 1011111101 0011010111 0101000111 1111011101 1101110101 1011110011 1011001101 1101110101 1111011101 11010100001 110110010110 0101111101 100111011001 11001110101 1011110001 0101110111 1000011111 0110110101 1101 111101 0111010101 1001110001 1001010101 10011000101 0101010111 1101110101 1111010101 01111010001 01011100101 1001010101 1101110100 010101101 1111010001 1001110100 1001000101 0101100101 1101111001 10101100100 1100010101 0101100111 0110011000 11110111010 11001010100 11010100001 1100110011 1111110101 0111110001 1111011111 0111011111 1110010100 1001010100 1111110111 1111110101 1111011101 1111010001 1101111101 1111110101 1111010101 0011010101 1101010101 1101000111 1111110100 11011000010 0001001101 1101101111 1101111111 11110110101 1100010001 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 775
- Average number of words per stanza: 142
- Amount of lines: 73
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; on, and, from, far are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, that are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines more is repeated).
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