This is an analysis of the poem London After The Great Fire, 1666 that begins with:
Methinks already from this chymic flame
I see a city of more precious mould,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd cece dbdb baba bfbf fcfc gggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001000101 1101001101 1101110101 0101110101 01010000101 1101000101 1101010101 11000010101 1111011110 11011001011 11001110101 11000010111 0111110001 1101010101 11000011111 1101010101 1101011001 0011010101 0100110101 0111000101 0101010101 1101010101 1101100101 0101010101 01010101001 0100111111 11011010101 1101011101 01001010111 1101111001 1001000101 1110110111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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