This is an analysis of the poem The City Tree that begins with:
I stand within the stony, arid town,
I gaze for ever on the narrow street;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdXd efef ecXc gbgb dada bhbh cbcb ecec iaia bjbj cece kbkbXicic
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010101 1111010101 1111010111 010101 1111010111 1101000101 1101010111000 110101 1101110001 1111010111 1111111101 1111001 1011110111 1001011101 1111011110 010101 1101010101 1111001101 1101000111 111101 11010101001 1000110011 1101100111 1100101 1111010101 0111010111 01010111001 010101 1101010111 0101010101 0101010011 110101 11010010001 1001101101 010011011001 011101 1101011101 1011111101 0101110101 111101 1111010101 0011000101 11111111001 110111 11010111001 1101010111 10011010101 111101 11110110101 0111010101 11010101101 111101 1100111111 0101111101 01110010111 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, where, my, the, and are repeated.
The author used the same words i, not at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The City Tree;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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