This is an analysis of the poem Westland Row that begins with:

Every Sunday there's a throng
Of pretty girls, who trot along...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXc ddXXXc ddeeff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011101 01011101 0010101 1110111 0010111 1010100 1110111 1010111 1110111 1000100 1011110 1110100 1010101 1010001 1011101 0100101 1110101 1110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • 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; they, and are repeated.

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  • summary of Westland Row;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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