This is an analysis of the poem 45 Mercy Street that begins with:
In my dream,
drilling into the marrow ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcadceF gFFhEbhijkhiXhjlddF mEhencachnkhdjecegok iijXpjpkkjjgkjeoaqjca cfnhcheerh FXpmlpecjphqdhcqri
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,19,20,21,10,18,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011 1000010 010101 111 010111101 101011 10101 11 11011 11 11 1111010 1101 1101110 0010 011001 00011 1101001 101101110 010 1101001 01011010 10101011 11101 101010010 1101 11 1011 1101 01110 10001110 11010110 00110 111 11 10001010 11010010010 110100110111 11010100110110 101001001 011101111 111101 1001010 011001 1 0010110 00010110 1100101 10110110101 01111011 110101100101 1111 1110111 1001 11101001 1111111 110010 1101 1111010101 1010 111101 0101011011 11110110 10011 11101 10101101 101010011 01011 1011 111 10110 01010 11011 11010 110100011 110101 1111011 11110010 11 1101101 1101 111111 010101011 1101 111 1101011 111101 0001010 111011 11000011 0010100 110 11 1011 11
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 346
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 95
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, she, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words not, at, and, i, what are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines there is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word there at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of 45 Mercy Street;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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