This is an analysis of the poem The City Of Golf that begins with:
Would you like to see a city given over,
Soul and body, to a tyrannising game? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab caca adad efef ghgh agag ijij cdcd klkl Xmam
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010101010 11100010001 011110100010 11110010101 00101101010 001011011110 11011000010 001001101010 111011100010 1101010001 101010101010 0111110101 0101111110 11101010011 1010100100010 10101010101 101010100110 00101010101 101110111110 0101010001 001010101110 11101010101 111011101010 11111001001 11101010 00111010101 1111100101010 11101110101 110100101010 0111010100 111110101010 111010101 1110111010 00101110001 01110101110 0111110001 11010111011 11001011101 101010101010 10101100101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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, all, golf are repeated.
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