This is an analysis of the poem The Drums Of Battersea that begins with:
They can’t hear in West o’ London, where the worst dine with the best—
Deaf to all save lies and laughter, they can’t hear in London West—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXCdXaabXCbX ccdXCdX eebXCdX aabXCdX ffbXCdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011101011001 101111101110101 1010110101010110 111010100010100 1111 10100 1000101010100 101010101111101 111011101011101 101110101010001 111000100010100 1111 10101 1010101010100 101010101110111 101011101111101 101110101010100 101000101010100 1111 10100 01110100010100 101110001010101 111000100010101 101000101010101 111010100010100 1111 10100 1010101010100 111000111110111 111110101111111 101111101111101 111010100010100 1111 111100 101010101010100 110111101101111 111011101110111 111111101111111 101110100010100 1111 10100 1011011100010100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 434
- Average number of words per stanza: 82
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
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; they, can, and, t, hear, drums, of, in, that, i, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word beating is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word battersea at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase drums connects the lines.
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