This is an analysis of the poem Crowds that begins with:
It is not given to every man to take a bath of multitude; enjoying a crowd is an art; and only he can relish a debauch of vitality at the expense of...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a X a b bXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00110010010101010101001011110111001000100100100101011001001010101011101001011010110 101101010011101001010101100110010010010101000100001001001 010010010001000101000010111111011100111101010110111001110100110110101010101011010010010011111100 010101101010100010100010100100111010100101100011010110011001101011010001000100010101101101010101110101110 111100101010101010001001000110100011001010101001101000010101010100101110 000010101010000101001011101101111101111011100000100100100101010111001001100110000100100100100110001011101110111110001011010111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 330
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 331 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 59
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, in, to, his, he, man, as, be, for, who, himself, all, crowd are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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