This is an analysis of the poem Nostalgia Of The Lakefronts that begins with:
Cities burn behind us; the lake glitters.
A tall loudspeaker is announcing prizes; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabb Xacadd eedebXX feaefgf cbabaa aaaghh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,7,7,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010110110 01110001010 01010101010 11110101010 01000111010 111010100010 100010010100 1100001100 11110101010 01111101100 111100010101 10001110001 10111010111 11110101101 1100011110 1011001101 011100101010 101010101101 1010101 11010111010 11101101010 11010110101 110100101010 1111011101 01000000100 001110001101 111010100010 11110111010 11010100101 11111101110 1111011011 101100011101 11001011101 00010100011 1011010011 010110101001 11010101111 01010010111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 287
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; distance, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines distance, world, pines are repeated).
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