This is an analysis of the poem A Description Of A City Shower that begins with:
Careful Observers may fortel the Hour
(By sure Prognosticks) when to dread a Show'r: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXabbccddcc eeccfXXcffgghhiicc ccjjkkeeiieellcciimXaa mmnnllddiii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,18,22,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10010110010 1110010101 11010101110 0101010111 0101111101 1101010101 0101111101 11011011101 0101110110 111110101 1001010101 1101010101 1101100101 0101010101 11011010101 1101010101 1101010001 10110010110 10110011101 1110011111 1101011101 0111011101 11011101001 1101011111 11000111001 1101111111 1111010111 1111110101 1111010101 0101110101 10010010111 1001000101 0101010111 0101011101 01001110101 1111110101 0111010101 1111011001 110011100101 0101010101 0101011001 0111110111 1001010101 11110100111 1101100101 0101110001 1111110101 1001010001 1101110101 0101011101 101011001 11010101011 1011010101 1111000111 1011110101 1111010111 1111010101 010110111 10101011111 10010010101 1001011111 1101011101 1111011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 737
- Average number of words per stanza: 127
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; and, to are repeated.
The author used the same word now at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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