This is an analysis of the poem Skyscraper that begins with:
By day the skyscraper looms in the smoke and sun and
has a soul....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdaeaeedfg aageffh igae ifagjg akeldkmnmiek elkeX eooebXhck dgmafoaengjkdg ldXpolhfhpeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,7,4,6,12,5,9,14,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101101001111 101 101101001011000 0111001010111 11011001101 10 00011101111101 111110100101 111100 1001110010111 10101101110010 0100 101011110111101 10110110111001 101 1010101011101 1110110111001 1001010110010 0101 101100101100100 111010001010 101100101111111 101001111 1011001001010100 101010110011 10110 101100110101101 1010110001001 10100111110 1110101101011 0110110011 011 1111110101101 11111101111 100111100110010 1111001001101 10110110110010 111 1110010110110 10011101011 100010010 1010101011001 111101011001 0011010010010 010101010101010 101 010110111101 1100101 1100110001100 1010100100100101 11010110001001 1001 11101101100010 010101101011 1010 10110110111 1001110110111 11101 01010010111101 11110101011101 0 111011100101 10101111110 11001011110 11100110111 1011001 10010101011110 10010110101011 10011111 101011101010 110110101 11010101011 1011101010 0100 0110110101101 01010110101010 1111000111101 0110101110 101101001010 1101101001101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 429
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 81
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; and, or, carry, of, hour are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word hour at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines and is repeated).
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- summary of Skyscraper;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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