This is an analysis of the poem California City Landscape that begins with:
On a mountain-side the real estate agents
Put up signs marking the city lots to be sold there....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcXXbXcdddefdcaXdcXXffeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010110 1111001010011 01110110010 1011111010 1101010001 1011010010 1110110000101 11110101010 11010010 11011001101 01110001011 10011110 010101100110010 10111110 1001010110101010 01011101010 1011011100101 1101001010010 1011010100 111001001110 00010101100 01001000110011 101001011010 010010100001001 0111101110001 1101111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1227
- Average number of words per stanza: 219
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; house, of are repeated.
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- summary of California City Landscape;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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