This is an analysis of the poem The Borough. Letter Viii: Trades that begins with:

OF manufactures, trade, inventions rare,
Steam-towers and looms, you'd know our Borough's ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ab aaabbX ccddeeddffffgghhiiddiXg bbiiiijjiiddiijjddggaaiikkddX iiddffiiiibbbbffbbe bb llXbeeggddjX jhhbbffiibbcceeccaXbbjjddddkkXmkXjbaaeXiiiiiidXkkkddlliiiddg dkkaannoojjppbbffddkkffiiX jjggddXnkkppXeiibXggddffddaahhbbeemmmmeeiiffmmbbfX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,6,23,29,19,2,12,60,26,50,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0101010101 1101111111 1 1111111011 1101110101 1111010101 01101110111 1111001010 1 0100010111 1101010101 1111110101 1101011101 0101010101 0101110101 11111001001 1101011101 1001010101 0101010101 1101000101 01011101010 01110101010 1011011101 0101011101 1101110101 1011010101 1011111111 1101010001 1011110111 1101110111 100101010 1 1100011101 11010111001 0101010011 1111010101 0101110100 1111111101 1101011101 0011110101 1101110001 1001010101 1011100101 1111110111 1111110001 11010101001 11010011001 1101010111 0111110101 110101010010 01010010010 11001010101 0101010101 11010100101 0101010101 1111110101 1011110101 1011110101 10101010101 010101010 1 1011011101 11111100101 1111110101 1111010101 0101001101 1011010001 1101110111 10011101001 1101010101 11010101001 0101110111 10110101010 1001110101 1001011101 11010100001 1011110101 00110110101 110101111 101 111100111 1 011010110101 0101010101 0101010111 1101010101 0101110101 010010101110 110111010010 11001011101 11011110101 1101010101 1101001011010 1 1111011101 0001110101 11010100111 1101010101 1101000101 010010110101 0101010111 010111100001 1001011111 1011010101 1101111111 0101010101 1101110111 1101110101 0011011111 010100101101 11111101001 11110111100 1101010101 1011011111 1011110101 1111011101 1011011101 1001011101 1111011101 0101110101 1011011101 1011111101 11110100101 1101011111 1010110111 1111010101 1111010101 11010101001 1011010101 1111010101 1101111101 1111111101 1101010101 1101111111 1111010111 0001110111 1111011101 1111110001 1101100101 1111111010 1101010101 1101011101 0101011101 1011110101 0101111101 0101110101 0101110101 1001010001 1101110001 111101111101 1111111111 0101001101 11110111110 1 0011010101 1101011101 1101010111 1111011111 1101111111 1111010101 11110100101 11011100001 11010101001 1111010101 1001010011 1111010101 1111011101 0110110101 1001010111 1101011101 1111010101 1101010101 1101011101 1011011101 1101010101 0101010101 0101010110 11110100011 10110101 01 1101111101 11010101110 11010101010 1101010101 1101110101 11011101110 1111010101 111101111 0111011111 11010011101 1101110101 1111111110 1111110101 1101010101 1101111101 1111010111 11111110110 10110111010 11111101010 1111011111 0101010101 1101011101 1111011101 0101011101 1101111111 1101011111 1011111101 1101011101 11110100101 1011011101 1111110111 1101010111 1001010111 01001010111 1111011101 1011111110 1101110101 1011011101 0101111001 1111110101 1111110111 1011011001 1111011111 1111010111 1111110101 0101110101 1101110111 1101110111 1111011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 984
  • Average number of words per stanza: 180
  • Amount of lines: 229
  • 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; his, and, he, so, they, to, some, their, i, me, you, come, my, no are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words till, or, he, to are repeated.

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