This is an analysis of the poem The Windy City [sections 1 and 6] that begins with:
1
The lean hands of wagon men...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abcdeefXgXh fijkakX limX dekfag ehfXlag X ljacnelfmlcXX ahffbX dfa ngdn gaj aike hha damhjlefhdjdXXdeldddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,11,7,4,6,7,1,13,6,3,4,3,4,3,21,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 0110101 1110101 101010101 111101111 10101101001 1010110101 0111001011 1011111100100 101000101100 1010110010 0100110 01011111 1010110001 101110011011 1111101010111011 111011011101 011010111101 10111111110011 100111010010 01001 010001101 111 1001110110 1001001001010 01010110101101 10011001110111 1101111011011010101 101010010 101011 010110110 010101101 10011010010 1001110 1000001110 100110111010010 1 011010101010 1111 0110011001010 0101101111 101 011010101011 10 0110101101010 1011101101010 1011111010 1011 1111011000100 1010 1010110101 10101111010 110100101001 111110101 1111011 10100 1001010110101 100101011011 101001 0100011101001 011110010 011101101 101001 0100001101011 100110010100 01111011 010010101101 110001101 11101011 01011 100101011110010 100101010010 101101 10011101 11111001 10100010 11010010100 11101101 110101001101010 1101 1111111 110111110 11111011010 10101101 1011101 111110100 100010 1001 01010111010 0100111110 01001110011 010001011110 101010
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 94
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, name, of, city, every, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, out, put, every, a, i are repeated.
The author used the same word the 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 city is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word belonging at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Windy City [sections 1 and 6];
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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