This is an analysis of the poem Don Quixote On Market Street that begins with:

Riding on Rosinante where the cars
With dismal unremitting clangors pass,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXXcXdebfbdX cfdaaedgahabXghgeeXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,20,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 101100101 0101010101 11011101000 10011010111 0101010101 1001011101 1001010111 1001010001 1011010001 1101010101 1001010101 1011110111 0100010101 11010101110 1010011101 0111001101 01011000110 1101010010 1101110001 1011011001 0101010111 1101010101 1111010100 1101100101 11100110101 01000101000 11010001100 11110001010 1110100101 11110101010 1111110101 01010001010 1101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 695
  • Average number of words per stanza: 120
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Don Quixote On Market Street;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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