This is an analysis of the poem Shadwell Stair that begins with:
I am the ghost of Shadwell Stair.
Along the wharves by the water-house,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cddc dbXd eaae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 0101010101 110100101 11011111 11111111 111100101 01110011 111100101 100010111 11111001 10000101 11010111 111010101 11110101 11010101 10010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines house is repeated).
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