This is an analysis of the poem The Town that begins with:

You said: “I’ll go to another land, to other seaways wandering,
Some other town may yet be found better than this,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaabbX bccddeeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11110010101010100 110111011010 110010010010100 11111010111 110000000101 010110101111 01001001101 11111100101100 1111010111011100 0101010111 0011001101 0101101111 110010100111101 101100101011 0111110011 111101111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 416
  • Average number of words per stanza: 80
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; i, you, same, in, no, there are repeated.

    The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of The Town;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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