This is an analysis of Picadilly by Frederick Locker-Lampson.
PICCADILLY! Shops, palaces, bustle, and breeze,
The whirring of wheels, and the murmur of trees;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXbccXbddbbeebbddbbffgghhbXaaXebb
- Stanza lengths: 34,
- Metre: 101011001011 01001101001 111111010110 110110111010 111011010010 111010111010 110010010110 100110111010 11101011011 111101011111 1010111011010 110110111010 110110110110 111010110010 110011110010 110011111010 101101001111 111101011001 1111110111010 011010011010 01110011001 11111111001 01001001001 01001001011 101001011001 100101101101 1011011110110 111111111000 1010001101101 11001111101 1011010011110 110001011010 111010111110 1111111111010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 34
Repeated words/phrases
and, her, i, my, of
Anaphora
and, a