This is an analysis of the poem London Types: Beef-Eater that begins with:
His beat lies knee-high through a dust of story-
A dust of terror and torture, grief and crime; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcddeXebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 01111101010 01010110111 111101011110 1111110011 010110001 0100110111 01110011000 1101011101 1111011101 11110101010 111101001010 11010101010 11110100111 0111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 669
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.
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