This is an analysis of the poem Sunday At Hampstead that begins with:

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(AN VERY IDLE IDYLL BY A VERY HUMBLE MEMBER OF THE GREAT AND NOBLE LONDON MOB.) ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a b cded fghg iaca jjkj XXlX maea mada kcdc mini ijcj jcmc igXg X hfhf hghg dada jojo X PApamjmj pdpdiqiq PApakgkg X jpgp iqdq qggg mege gaka hjqj XniX hhhh X indX rhah dfmX hegX rjnj hdhd XXXX jjmX idXX dgdg kdcd mcmX a XXXcqqjkoojjXn hhcXXnccooo a
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,8,8,8,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,14,11,1,25,1,25,1,25,1,25,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1 110101010101010001110101 0001011 0001011 01101011 0100101 10110010 1001101 10111110 0011101 111110 1111001 010110110 11111001 1101011 1100111 10011010 010101 111111110 101001101 110011010 01010001 01001110 100101 10111001 1011111 11101110 0110111 0111011 11111101 0111110 111111 11001010 1101001 11111110 11111001 111111010 11110111 111101110 011111 01101011 1110111 1010111 0110101 11011010 0110111 11101010 010101 11001010 011101 1 1111010011 11110111001 1101011111 1101010001 11111101001 1111010101 1101110101 0111010101 1100010101 1100010101 000100101111 0101011001 11011100111 11010011001 01010100101 0101010111 1 1010000111 101001001 011101111 010111 0101010 010101 00101110 1010101 10100110111 111111 111110111 0011101 01010010 0100101 10111010 1101001 1010000111 101001001 110010111 010001 0101010 010011 0101110 111101 1 10110011 1101011 11110010 1101001 1111010 000101 0101010 100111 1001010 110101 1100010 1011001 1011110 010101 0101010 100101 1101110 0100101 110110110 01111111 11111110 1001001 1111110 0111001 1011011 1101001 11011110 1111001 1011110 010011 100110010 01001001 101110001001001001 11100010 1101011 1010010010 001101010 1101011 1101011 1111111 11111011 1111010 100011001 1110010010 1011110 10010010 11101111 011010010 10110111 1101111 1111111 1010011011 11001011 111110110 1101111 111010010 01010101 10111010 111010001 100110100 10101 11111011 0101011 11001110 111101 11110100 0100101 11001110 1101010 11111010 010101 111110011 010111 101001010 11101101 101110010 10111101 1101110 1101011 10111010 00100101 1 1100011111 1100110101 1011110111 0111110101 1011011111 0101001111 11010101010 11010101010 1111011101 0101001001 1001010101 0111110101 1011011111 1001010111 0111010101 0111011111 01111101010 100100010100 0111110110 1111001101 1101011111 0101011101 11111111011 0111100101 0101110001 1 1100011101 1111001111 0111000101 0101011111 1101110101 1001011111 01010101111 1101111101 0011010101 0111111101 1001010001 10011001010 1001011001 1111110101 1111010101 0100010101 1001110111 1111101111 0111110011 01110010101 1001110101 11110010101 0101010101 01011010101 0111010001 1 1100011011 11010111110 1111010101 0111010001 1101010101 10010011001 1011110001 1111010111 1101110011 0101010101 1101010101 1111010101 1111010111 1001010101 1110010101 11010101001 1101010101 0101010101 1111010101 01001010111 0101110111 1111010101 1111010111 1100010101 0111010001 1 1100011001 0111011101 0111110110 1001010101 0101011111 0101010101 01011100101 1001110101 1111010101 1001011111 1100010101 1101010111 1100011111 110100101 010010100111 0101010101 0101001110 1100000011 1101110111 1100110101 1111010101 1111111101 1111010111 1101011011 0111010001 1 1111010101 11011100100 1100011111 11010100001 11010100101 1001001101 1101001111 1101010101 11001010101 1111001101 1111110111 1101101101 1011000111 1001001101 1011010111 1101110110 1111000111 0101000111 1101110101 1011110111 1111110101 1001110101 1101111111 0101110111 0101010001 1 111111001 0110101101 1010100101 110111 111111001 0110101101 1010100101 110111 101001001 0101001001 10011111 010011 101101011 101010101 1110010011 1011011 1 110100101 01000111011 11010111 0100111011 01010101 010001001001 1111011010 100101111100 01110101 01001001001 11010101 10101101110 11011111 1100111111 1010111001 1011011010001 1 110111 111101 110101 100101 110101 100111 101101 10110 111101 100111 101101 110111 110111 1100010 011101 11110
  • Amount of stanzas: 69
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 366
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, to, sinking, for, her, in, ', as, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words this, we, i, was, were, and, ten, the, one, a are repeated.

    The author used the same words was, as, a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words ', track, darling at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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