This is an analysis of the poem Trivia; Or The Art Of Walking The Streets Of London: Book I. that begins with:

Of the Implements for Walking the Streets,
and Signs of the Weather.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ab XcddeeffgghhiiiijjdhhaakkhhiiiicciiddddggiiddXdggccaahhddcciiffXc aachffhhddaacchh jjhhXjiihhaahhffddccffddiiiigglXhhaahh hhddddggXcgbmmgbdXjjhh hhddllcccXXhhhiihhggkkXigghhahbg mmggddgghhddiihhcccciinniibbmmkkii hhiiffiiiihhjjmmiiggiikk hhhhiiffhhddha
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,65,16,38,22,32,34,24,24,26,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0010011001 110010 11010111010 1011111111 11001010001 1001011101 11110010111 1101101101 1101010101 1101010101 01011100101 1101011001 0111110101 1001010101 1101010101 110010100111 1101001101 0111110101 1101010101 00110101001 1111000101 1111010101 1100010101 1011110101 11111001001 1111011101 1111010111 1101010101 1101011101 1101010101 1001010101 0101110101 1001010101 1111010111 1101111101 1011010111 11010010101 0101110101 1101011101 1111010111 1101011101 1101110101 0101011101 1011110101 0101011101 0101010101 11011010101 1101100110 10000010101 00010011111 0101010101 010100011111 1111010101 101100011101 10110101001 1101010101 1101011101 110010100101 1101011001 0101011101 11100110001 0011011101 1011010101 10101111101 11001010101 0101110110 1111010101 1111010101 0111011111 01010011111 1100010101 1101010101 0101010101 10100011101 1101110101 01011010101 1101110101 0101110101 1101011001 1111010101 1111010101 11001001001 10110100101 1111001101 1101010101 1100010101 11001010101 1111010101 1101010101 1001010101 11010100101 0101010101 11000101010 1101010101 1011010111 1101010101 1101010101 1101110101 1010110101 11010100101 1111010101 1101100101 1111000101 101100110001 1101010101 1011010101 1111010101 0101010101 1101100101 1101010101 1011010101 0101010101 0101010101 1101010101 1011010100 01010010001 01110101001 0101010101 1111001101 1111011101 0101111101 1101011101 0110010101 1101111101 0101011101 1101010101 1111110101 0101010101 0101010101 01110010101 1101010101 1101010101 11100101010 0101010101 1101011101 110101101 11010101010 1101010101 1101010110 0101010101 0101010101 10001010111 1101010101 1111010101 0101011001 0101010101 01001110101 0101010101 1101010101 1111010111 0111011101 01010111001 1111111101 11010101010 1101011101 0101011101 0111010101 1101011101 0101110101 1101010101 1101010001 0110111101 0101010101 0101010101 0101111101 1101010101 1001010101 1100010101 11010001 1101011101 0101110111 0101010101 11010110001 10110001010 1111011101 1101001101 11001110101 1001000101 10010011101 1011010111 01001110101 101010101 1111010101 10110101010 110011101010 1101111101 1101000101 1111010111 1111010111 0101100101 1101010001 1011110101 10001000101 1101011101 0101010001 11011000101 0111010101 11001011101 0101010001 1101010101 1101010101 11110101110 010110001010 1110010101 1100101001001 1111010101 10111101001 0101010101 1101011101 0111010101 0101010101 11010100101 1101110101 11010100101 0111000101 1101010101 1101111101 1001010101 01010100101 1101110101 1111001111 10110100101 1001000101 1101010101 0101011101 1101010101 1001010101 1001010111 1101010111 1101010101 1011010101 1001010101 11011010101 1101110101 1001010111 0101010111 1100010101 1101010111 0101010101 1101011101 010110101 1011010101 0100110001 1111111111 1100110101 1100101101 1101001101 1101110001 1111011101 010101000101 0101001001 1001010111 110101010001 11011101001 1101010101 0101010101 1101110101 1111010101 0101010101 0101011101 1101010101 11110100101 1101110101 0101110101 0101011101 1101010101 1101011111 1101010111 1101010101 1101011101 1011010101 01011001001 0101010101 01010010101 1101010101 1011010101 1011010101 1101110101 1101010101 01010111001 1001110101 0101011101 1001110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1258
  • Average number of words per stanza: 215
  • Amount of lines: 283
  • 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; my, and, thy, with, in, her, he, his are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Trivia; Or The Art Of Walking The Streets Of London: Book I.;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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