This is an analysis of the poem The City's Love that begins with:

For one brief golden moment rare like wine,
The gracious city swept across the line; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaababcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ottava rima
  • Metre: 1111010111 0101010101 01000010011 01011111001 1101101101 11010001001 0111010011 11111101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 349
  • Average number of words per stanza: 65
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

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  • summary of The City's Love;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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