This is an analysis of the poem The City At The End Of Things that begins with:
Beside the pounding cataracts
Of midnight streams unknown to us... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXbbbbcdcdebebfgfghbhbbiaibcbcciciaeaejdjd acbccfcfakaklblbededijijlilidcdcjgjgmamadede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,44,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 01110101 11000101 11010100 101101101 01110111 11110101 01000101 011101011 110110101 10010111 01010011 11010111 01010101 11010101 01010101 11011101 110101000 11000101 00010100 10111100 11010101 01011101 001010111 11111110 110101111 01010101 11111111 11010101 0100111001 11010101 01010001 11111111 11100101 10110101 010101001 11001101 11110101 11111101 111001001 11100101 110100111 01110101 110011101 01111111 01111101 11010001 01010111 11010101 11110011 01011111 11011111 11010101 110011010 11110101 010100010 11010101 01010101 110010101 01010100 11000101 01110101 00110111 11111100 11100111 11011101 10010111 1100001 01010111 01010111 11010101 010110111 01110101 11010101 01000101 11011101 101011011 10010100 10011111 01000100 11010111 11011101 11111111 11010111 0100100001 11010111 101100101 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1587
- Average number of words per stanza: 276
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; it, and, they, not, nor, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, the, nor are repeated.
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- summary of The City At The End Of Things;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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