This is an analysis of the poem The City In The Desert that begins with:
In a lost land, that only dreams have known,
Where flaming suns walk naked and alone;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXeXXaeecXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0011110111 1101110101 0101011101 11010110001 0101110101 1101010011 11010101010 11001100010 1001011100 0101010111 0101010101 1001010100 0101010001 0100110101 1101010101 010101 111001010011110010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 346
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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.
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