This is an analysis of the poem William Street that begins with:
’Tis William Street, the link street,
That seems to stand alone;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdddcbebfbab ffcfbXdc XgdefaXa fgdebaha dahaicXX jajabkik
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011 110101 1101011 010001 1101110 110101 1111011 101101 01010111 010101 1101110 010101 1101010 110111 1100010 110011 1101010 110111 1101010 010111 1101010 010011 11010100 010101 1101011 010100 01010100 110100 1101011 011101 111101000 010001 0111010 110100 1101010 110100 0100010 110001 1101111 110101 1101110 010111 1110010 110111 1101110 110101 1101010 110100 0111010 111111 0101110 110101 0111010 111101 1101010 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 272
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; street, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, that, with are repeated.
The author used the same word tis at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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