This is an analysis of the poem In Regent Street that begins with:
ONE of the nightly hundreds who pass
Wearily, hopelessly, under the gas.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd bb ee bb ff dX gg gg hh ii ff ii gg gX aX XX jjXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 100101011 1001001001 1011110111 1011101001 1110110101 0111001001 1111011111 1111001001 111111011 01101110101 100101011 0010101101 1001100101 10100101111 11011101 1100101101 1111100111 001010011011 1111110111 1001001001 110111101 1010110111 1110110101 111101111 1101111011 1111100101 1101111101 0010111111 11111101001 0110111001 11010100111 00110101111 1110111101 1111011010 111110011001 1111011100 110011101 1111001111110 100110011 1111111001 10110111 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 83
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, ', i, work are repeated.
The author used the same word ' at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ' connects the lines.
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