This is an analysis of the poem Descriptive Jottings Of London that begins with:
As I stood upon London Bridge and viewed the mighty throng
Of thousands of people in cabs and 'busses rapidly whirling along,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeXX ffee ccff ffff Xfff cccc ffeeXffcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11101101110101 010010011101001001 1100010011 11111010111111 1111000101010101 1101111100001 101010011001 010101001011111 10100100110001 10101001100010111 110011101101010 111110011111010 11010001010110101 11010100010001 01010100001 0010011110011 111101001100101 0001101001110001 11000100101 101100101101 1111001010101101 1010100111111 110100100111100101 010101011001 1110100110111111 11011110101 111111111 1111111 10101011001001 1100101101 10110010110001 111101010111101 11101111001 00100110101 110010101010111 10101101011 110100101110001 1110111010101 110111111001 101010101111010101101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, as, of, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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