This is an analysis of the poem The City Of Sin that begins with:

LO! Death hath rear'd himself a throne
In a strange city, all alone,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbb ccddbcbee aaeXccccaaa cceeffggeehhaa hhffaaiicgXgXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,9,11,14,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 00110101 1101011 100101101101 11010101 111100110 11110101 11111101 010010101 110101101 01010101 01110101 10000101 01010101 110101011 10111011 11010101 11010100 1101101010 0100101110 11111101 110110111 110010101 110000001 0101101 11010101 11010001 11010111 0110101 10101001 1010011 1110101 01110001 11011110 010111001 110101111 11110001 100110001 11100001 11010001 01100101 100101101 01010011 100101110 010001010 01110101 010101101 11011101 11111101 110001010 110100 11011101 11010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1801
  • Average number of words per stanza: 326
  • Amount of lines: 57
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, that, up are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words up, the are repeated.

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

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