Analysis of Our Great London City



The hustle and bustle,
Of the grey London Town,
With many verbal tussles
Wearing great golden crowns

The tourists and journalists,
All wanting a peep
Of this explorer’s journey
An explorer’s dream.

The Crown Jewels and jewellery
Is not to be missed
It would be great foolery
Our lion would hiss.

The blacked up chimney sweeps
With dusty ol’ faces,
But whistling great happy tunes
And running in races.

The sappy store owner
The milkman and boy
The little old loners
The shops selling toys.

The rich and the poor
The bold and the meek
The young and the old
The eager and bleak.

The poor little doggies
On the Palace’s steps
The poets telling stories
Holding their reps.

The small fish n chip store.
The circus as well.
The big London eye
Overlooking hotels

Our great London city
Is not to be missed
For it is so pretty
It’s first on the list!


Scheme xxxx xxax bCax xdxd bxxx bexe fgfg bxxx aCac
Poetic Form Quatrain  (44%)
Metre 010010 101101 1101010 101101 0100100 11001 1101010 10101 011001 11111 1111100 101011 011101 110110 1101101 010010 01110 0101 010110 01101 01001 01001 01001 01001 011010 101001 0101010 1011 011111 01011 01101 10001 1011010 11111 111110 11101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 818
Words 154
Sentences 9
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 36
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 74
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Submitted on April 05, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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