This is an analysis of the poem Street Music that begins with:
There's a band in the street, there's a band in the street.
It will play you a tune for a penny— ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabBXaXabB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001101001 0011011010 001101101101 111110110 1010110101 010100111 1010101111 10111010 1010110101 101101110 1010110101 010100111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 515
- Average number of words per stanza: 101
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; you, tune, and, music's are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word it is repeated.
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