This is an analysis of the poem A Ballad Of The Town Water that begins with:
It is the Police Commissioners,
All on a winter's day;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb Xbdb dXcX cbbb cece fXca faXX XXbb gXgghhX XXbbiiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 000010100 110101 11010110 110101 1100111001 1000111 11101010101 110101 1101110101 000101 11110100110 111111 111100110 1100111 111011101 011010 111100110 110001 1010110110 010101 111110101 110100 111100110 1100101 111100110 10100101 1100110101 110100 1111011010 1010111 111110110 101101 11000101 11010101 01110101 11011001 11010111 01101101 11101111 11010010 11010000 111111001 11010111 010100111 11110101 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; they, went, and, be are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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