This is an analysis of the poem Willaloo that begins with:
By E. A. P.
In the sad and sodden street, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaBaabcccbcbbbXbBbdeddeffbbbebXeaaaghgghaXiiaaaXiiiXbbbbjjhhiibbbhheheeeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 74,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 0011101 011 1010101 0010111 111 10101010 10101010 1010 111 10101010 111 101010101010101 001010101110001 1010101 1010111 011 111010101110111 10101010 0010101 10101010 00101010 1110001 10111 0010101 111010100110111 101 111 1011101 101100101010001 1010100010100010 0010101 1010001 001 10101010001 10101010 1010001 11100010 11101010 1010 10101010 00101010 1010001111 111 101 001 1010101 0010001 001 001111 111 00101010101 1010111 101 111 11100110001 11101010 10101010 101 101 0010101 1110111 10100101 001 1110001 111 100010111010111 0101 101010101011101 1011101 111 111010101010101 101110101001101 1101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2182
- Average number of words per stanza: 384
- Amount of lines: 74
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; buying, summer, time, swells, to, be, cluster are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words 'tis, to are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines swells is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase swells connects the lines.
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