This is an analysis of the poem City Contrasts that begins with:
A barefooted child on the crossing,
Sweeping the mud away,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdada aefegXhb ifjfaklk aelegccX makamjXj dgegcfif lncndoco XkXkifif anhnlpfp
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0100011010 100101 01001110 100101 01011011 0111001 010100101 1010101 01001110 1001001 010100101 10100101 1011010010 11000110 1010011111 10101101 01001110 1101101 010100101 0010111 01011010 1011101 1100101111 0111111 01001010 10100101 010101101 11010101 010110010 0101101 111111010 1001110 01010010 0101001 010100001 10100101 010010010 10101001 101100101 100100001 01110010 1001110 1010010101 01001110 01010010 0111001 010110010 10101011 01001010 1011011 0101111011 11101001 01010010 101001001 11101110 11110111 1110011 11010011 101001110 10100101 11001010 1111001 1010110110 10100101 01001010 1101101 101010101 1101101 111011010 1111011 10111101 0100001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the, and are repeated.
The author used the same words a, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of City Contrasts;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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