This is an analysis of the poem The Foggy Dew that begins with:
A splendid place is London, with golden store,
For them that have the heart and hope and youth galore; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb ddbb eebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010100101 101101111101 110101011111 10101110000101 01111111111 0100101110101 01111110101 1101010000101 011101000101 010111011001 10011110111 1010101000101 100111101111 1010010010101 1101010010001 11101010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, he, all, in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word dew at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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