This is an analysis of the poem Street Cries that begins with:
WHEN dawn's first cymbals beat upon the sky,
Rousing the world to labour's various cry, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc bbddcc eecccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111010101 10010101001 01010101001 0101010101 11011111001 1111110101 1011010101 00010010001 101101111 1011010101 1101000101 1111110101 111100100101 1001010001 1111110101 1111001101 1001001101 110110110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 275
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word street at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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