This is an analysis of the poem London Types: Bus Driver that begins with:

He's called The General from the brazen craft
And dash with which he sneaks a bit of road ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbcdcdaeaeee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 11010000101 1101110101 11011011110 1100010101 1101001111 01011101010 1101101111 010011111 11000010101 01001010101 11010100101 11011110101 1100010101 1111110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 629
  • Average number of words per stanza: 115
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; he, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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