This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet: O City, City that begins with:

To live between terms, to live where death
has his loud picture in the subway ride,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ceXeeb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 010110111 1011000111 1001110111 11010111001 1010100100 0011011111 010101000100 011010100111 101011010100 001100110 0111101100 10101000100110 11101010 100111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 297
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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