This is an analysis of the poem Town Lights that begins with:
For him who wanders up and down
Its long-familiar streets in autumn nights,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba caac cddX effe dccd addaXfccf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110111 0101010101 0101010101 001101 10111101 1101011111 1101110011 100101 11011101 0101001111 11001010101 011111100 111001111 11011111001 1101010111 100010111 110101001 1111010001 1101100101 01001100011 11111101 1101111101 1100011101 110101001 10000111 0101110101 11010010001 01010100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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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