This is an analysis of the poem A Dead City that begins with:
Twilight ascends the abandoned ramps of noon
Within an ancient land, whose after-time...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabXa cadadc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11010010101 0111011101 10000110101 1101010101 1101001101 1110011101 1101001001 0101010111 11111000011 0101010011 0101110101 1001110101 1101010101 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 300
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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