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

Time, the old humourist, has a trick to-day
Of moving landmarks and of levelling down, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababccccdedeff
  • 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: 10110010101 01011101001 1001010111 1001011101 0111010101 1101010001 1101011101 01100100101 1011010001 110110100111 0101011111 1111110001 1101110011 10010101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 631
  • Average number of words per stanza: 111
  • 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; with, as are repeated.

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