This is an analysis of the poem The Heap Of Rags that begins with:
One night when I went down
Thames' side, in London Town, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddddcceeddffgghhhheeddii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 1010101 010111 111111 111111 111111 110101 110111 110111 110110 110111 011111 110101 010011 111100 100011 111111 011111 111111 110111 010101 1111011 110011 011111 100111 101111 1101011 111001 110101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 857
- Average number of words per stanza: 167
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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