This is an analysis of the poem There Stands A City that begins with:
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Year by year do Beauty's daughters,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaaaa XbXb cacX XdXX cdcd dXXe XfXf cfXf cecX aXaX fGXg bhbh cfcX fGXg dbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100 11111010 0010111 101010010 10101001 10110010 0110111 10101011 11011001 01101010 1111101 10110110 1101001 010100010 10101001 10011100 1100101 111001010 1110111 11111110 1111101 11101110 10111111 10001110 1010111 11111010 1111101 11100111 1100101 11101010 101001 10101011 1010101 11011010 1010111 10101010 0100101 11000010 1111101 10101010 11111001 10101010 1011101 11101110 1110111 11111010 11010111 110101110 11100101 11111010 111110010 11101010 110010010 11001010 1011101 11101110 1110111 10111010 1111101 00101100 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 61
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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, on are repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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