This is an analysis of the poem The City Of Destruction that begins with:
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a X ba bc ca Xd Xa cX ee X cX dX Xe Xd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010 1 01000101011100001 1100010001010001 0101011101000101 0110010111010101 01010100101110101 0101010111010101 00111101011001010 0101000110011001 0100101001100001001 1011010101010100 1000101001111101 11010010011111010 0101011111011011 011010010111010101 1 01010111010100001 1101010110010101 11011000010101001 10110101001000100 010101010110100 100110010101011 1100010101010100 1111010101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 106
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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