This is an analysis of the poem A Greyport Legend that begins with:
They ran through the streets of the seaport town,
They peered from the decks of the ships that lay;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXaX bcbcddb dXdXbbX ececaac dfdfbXd dgdgccg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1110100111 1100100111 0111111001 110111111 1111101100 111101011 101110101 011100111 011110101 100100101 100101101 10101111 11101001 10100101 1011101111 1011101010 1011100111 1001110110 11100100111 11110111 1110110101 0111111001 110110111 1110110111 1010101101 1110100111 1010101111 1100111101 111111101 1111110101 010010101 1010110101 1010010111 001011110 110110101 001010101 011010101 111010101 1110110101 110010101 010010101 100100100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 287
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; they, your, all, and, each, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, and, for are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase all connects the lines.
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