This is an analysis of the poem Lines And Squares that begins with:
Whenever I walk in a London street,
I'm ever so careful to watch my feet;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaXXX XXccbbddXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101100101 0101100111 111001 101001 11101011001 01011101001 11011 1110010 111010010100 1010110110101 1111101110100 11001011001 111101001101 11100111111 101110111 1100100111 010110111 101011001110 11110010100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 393
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word squares at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Lines And Squares;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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