This is an analysis of the poem In The Boring Village that begins with:

In the boring village where he works—
clerk in a textile shop, very young—...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXaXbaXXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 001010111 100111101 1111010111101 0101111011011 111110101111 0001001010 0010101110101 1101011010010 101110001010 010110100010100 100110101 001111101001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 576
  • Average number of words per stanza: 108
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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