This is an analysis of the poem King Street that begins with:
A morn, a sallow lamp-lit morn,
A dawn that never breaks to day! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacac cdcdXcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111 01110101 11010101 01111111 001011001 11010101 111000101 10010101 01110101 01011101 10010111 01011101 11010101 11110101 01010111 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 302
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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, and are repeated.
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- summary of King Street;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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