This is an analysis of the poem Dedication Of 'The Dream Of Man' To London, My Hostess that begins with:

City that waitest to be sung,--
For whom no hand... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbacac dbdbdedecdcd fbfbghghefef XcXccacacacA ieieffffdadA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110001 1111 01010111 0101 1100101001 1101 01110101 0101 11011101 01001 101100101 0101 110001111 1011 01000101 0101 01110101 1111 11000111 1101 01010001 1101 01001111 0111 110011101 1111 11110001 10011 10110011 1111 11010111 1111 11010101 1011 1100011 0111 11010111 1101 11110111 1101 11010101 11001 11110101 1111 11000101 1101 110011001 1111 11111101 0101 111100111 1001 11111111 0111 10111101 0101 010010101 0101 11010101 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 316
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; of is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word song at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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