This is an analysis of the poem Marching Streets that begins with:
Death slays the moon and the long dark deepens,
Hastens to the city, to the drear stone-heaps,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab Xcdc cede bfbf Xghg aaia Xjaj Xhibi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101101110 10001000111 1111101010 10001010111 11011111010 1101000111 11110101010 10101010111 110100101010 10101000111 10010101010 1001000111 111001111 1001000111 11111100110 10001000111 11110101110 10101010111 11110101110 11101010111 11111101010 101010101001 10001101110 10101010111 1111111010 101010001001 11010101010 10101010111 1111100010 10101010101 101010101110 10101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, with are repeated.
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