This is an analysis of the poem In The Street that begins with:

Lord Shaftesbury
YOU have done well, we say it. You are dead,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xababacacddddee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 11000 1111110111 1001100111 1101111001 1111011101 1101111101 1001110011 1001111111 1010111111 1111011101 0100111111 0111010101 10111001011 1110110111 1011011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 663
  • Average number of words per stanza: 130
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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