This is an analysis of the poem London Types:Life-Guardsman that begins with:
Joy of the Milliner, Envy of the Line,
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbcbcdcdXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10010010001 10011101010 11010101001 11011110010 0011011101 11101010101 0100011101 1101010101 11010100111 01110100111 0101010101 11001010100 01010100111 0101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 670
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- 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; of, his, he, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word his is repeated.
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