This is an analysis of the poem And The City Stood In Its Brightness that begins with:
And the city stood in its brightness when years later I returned,
And life was running out, Ruteboeuf's or Villon's,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXXXbX AXbcb AcaXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010100101010101 111101100110 0100101010110 1010110100110 1101101101 1101111011010 110010011001010 1010100101010101 011000110010010 011101010101011010100101010 11100111011 11001000100101 1010100101010101 1110001111111 0111101011101 1110101100010 1010100101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 323
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (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, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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