This is an analysis of the poem On The Way To Kew that begins with:
On the way to Kew,
By the river old and gray,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABaabaccDa BaaAbaccDa aaBbaaeeDA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101 1010111 100101 1111001 110101 011101 010101 1101001 101010 11101 1010111 0010101 101101 10101 110101 011101 110101 101111 101010 11101 0010101 11101 1010111 1000101 11111 10001 101101 1111101 101010 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ghost, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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