This is an analysis of the poem Trivia; Or, The Art Of Walking The Streets Of London (Excer that begins with:

Thus far the Muse has trac'd in useful lays
The proper implements for wintry ways;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabb ccddaaeeddffagaahh bbggeeddiiccaabbeebb hhjjhhcchhaaeegghhaa bbbbeecX hheeggaabbcceehhii eeccXXXc bbddXXhhffhhhh bbhhhhhheeddeedd hhkkccXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,18,20,20,8,18,8,14,16,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101110101 0101001101 1101000101 01010010001 1101010101 1101010111 1111010101 1101000101 1101010111 0100010101 1101011101 1101011001 0111010101 1101010101 1101001101 01111100101 1101010101 1011010101 0101111111 0101100101 11001000101 1101010101 1101011101 1101010111 0101110101 1001010101 11011001001 0101010101 1010010101 1101010111 1101110101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 1111000101 0101011101 0111011111 1101010101 1101110111 0101010101 0101110101 0101010101 1011110111 1111100101 1110000101 0101000101 1111010101 10010101001 1101010101 1111110101 1011010101 1001010101 101101110101 1101010101 1101110101 1101010111 1101010101 1001010101 1101000101 1011110101 1101010101 1110010101 1101011101 1101010111 0111000101 1011011101 0101011101 1101100101 1101000101 1101011101 10110000111 111001111011 1111010101 11001010101 1011110101 10110101001 1101001001 0101010101 1111010101 1001010101 1101011101 11010010101 1101000101 1001010101 1101010101 110011001 1111111101 1101100111 1110100101 1011111001 1101010101 0101010111 10111111101 0101110101 1101010110 1101110101 1101011101 1111110101 1110110101 1101011101 1101000101 10010100001 1011011101 0101110101 1111001101 111100101 1101011101 0101110101 1101110101 111100101 1101010101 1101000101 1101010001 0101010101 1100110101 0101010111 0100111101 10010010101 10011110101 1111110101 11111100011 1111011101 01001010101 1101010101 1101011101 1011010101 0111110101 11011100101 1011010101 0101000101 11001010001 1001010101 11010010101 1101010001 1111100001 1101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 628
  • Average number of words per stanza: 104
  • Amount of lines: 137
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; for, and, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, bid are repeated.

    The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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