This is an analysis of the poem London Types: News Boy that begins with:
Take any station, pavement, circus, corner,
Where men their styles of print may call or choose, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcXdXdee
- 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: 11010101010 1111011111 11111101110 1111110101 1011010001 1111110101 1101001001011 1101010111 1001010101 01010100101 0101010111 1111010011 10111110010 00010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 636
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; his is repeated.
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