This is an analysis of the poem Grant Avenue that begins with:

The city's towers were limned in fire
When, down the long, the hill-descending street,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbac XdXdXe fegfeg Xhfhif ejijei
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01010010010 1101010101 1111110001 1101 01010101010 110101011001 10110100 1101011101 111111001100 1111 0101110010 101100110101 11010100 1101110101 0101010100 1101 1001011101 110101010101 11110100 1001110101 1111010111 1011 1011010111 0111001011101 11010111 1101100101 1101011101 0101 1100111111 010011110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Grant Avenue;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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