This is an analysis of the poem Whitechapel High Road that begins with:

Lusty life her river pours
Along a road of shining shores.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaabccaaXbaabdadaaeXebfbgaaagagaa eahheeahefccffggXaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,19,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1010101 01010101 010101 1101010111 01110101 11111101001 01010101001 11000101 0101010110 011101 00111010101 100111101 01010100111 1100100101 10101001 0101110111 1010010010101 1111010101 1001010001 11000101010 1111000101 1011001 001111010011 11011110111 1101111101 01001010011 1101110111 1001110101 110101 00101001101 1001010101 1101111101 0110010101 1101101101 0101010101 01010111001 11000010101 1000010011 0100010101 1001010101 111100101001 1011010001 1101111001 1011011011 1001011001 1111010101 01100010101 01010011 1100100001101 0101111110 0101010101 1001001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1067
  • Average number of words per stanza: 183
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; nor is repeated.

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