This is an analysis of the poem Methought I Was A Billow In The Crowd that begins with:
Methought I was a billow in the crowd
Of common men, that stream without a shore,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011010001 0101110101 1101110111 1101101101 101110111 0101000100 11011001110 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 307
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.
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