This is an analysis of the poem City Of Dreams that begins with:
Oh, we might have a marvellous city
Were we only less keen on cash... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd eeeefdfd fcfcbdbd cgXghdXd ieieadad ghXhjdjX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010010 01101111 1101110010 11111001 010110011 01101011 0010010011 110011001 1111010110 01011001 001110010 11101101 111110010 11011001 1111010010 110011001 111110010 01001011 110010010 110010001 1110010110 00110101 111110010 11111001 111001010 01101001 111100111100 101011101 011111010 11111011 1011110100 11011001 111110110 11001001 0010011010 11101011 1111010010 011011011 10111110010 110011001 111111010 11111001 0110011010 01111111 1110110011 111011011 1111111011 110011001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; in, and, that, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words were, and are repeated.
The author used the same words oh, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word that at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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