This is an analysis of the poem The Cockney Soul that begins with:
From Woolwich and Brentford and Stamford Hill, from Richmond into the Strand,
Oh, the Cockney soul is a silent soul – as it is in every land! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb cc aadd aaXX Xc ccee ff ffcc cX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,4,4,2,4,2,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011011010100001 101010010110001001 11101001010110101 1010010011011010101 110010010100100101 1100111011010101 10001001010100101 11100101011100111 00101010101010100101 1111011110011111 1000111011100111 0010110011110101001 101101101111100101 10101111011101111010 1110110011100001010100 10101001100001111111 1000100101111101 101111010100101001 1111101011100111 1111001110010111 111100101011101 11101011011010101 110010010110010101 101111010111100101 111101001001101001 00100101011011001 11101011011010101 1110110101111101010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 74 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 15
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, them, of, in, his, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words oh, he are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines square is repeated).
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