This is an analysis of the poem Segregation that begins with:
I stood beside the silken rope,
Five dollars in my hand,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dXdXee fbfbbb cgcgeX bhbhii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 110011 11001101 011001 11010011 01110001 11010101 100101 101111101 1001110 11010111 11011111 11111101 011111 11111011 111101 11001101 11010101 1001101111 10011011 101101101 110001 11111111 111101110 10110101 111101 01111101 111111 11010101 01011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Segregation;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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