This is an analysis of the poem London Types: Bluecoat Boy that begins with:
So went our boys when Edward Sixth, the King,
Chartered Christ's Hospital, and died. And so ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXccdedecc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111110101 1011101111 1011010001 0100011101 1101111100 1100111110 1001011111 01011100111 1100110101 1011010101 1011110111 0111011111 0101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 575
- Average number of words per stanza: 99
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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 is repeated.
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