This is an analysis of the poem Lines Written In London that begins with:
Struggle not with thy life!—the heavy doom
Resist not, it will bow thee like a slave:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdXeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010110101 0110011101 1111110011 1111111111 0110111111 1111011111 1111010101 1011010101 1011111011 00110100010 1111101100 10111001010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 561
- Average number of words per stanza: 104
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; not is repeated.
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