This is an analysis of the poem The Village Street that begins with:
In these rapid, restless shadows,
Once I walked at eventide,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdcXdadad ceaXfe gbdbhb caXaha giaibi ccbcgc hjdjij ceceXe XbjbXb haaaha jafaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101011 1111100 10101010 1010111 10111011 1010101 10001110 1010111 101001010 1010111 10101110 1010101 10100110 0010101 10101110 00101010 10101011 1010101 001001010 11001001 100101011 1010101 10101110 00101011 10001110 1010100 10101010 010101 10101010 00101011 10110010 1010101 11111010 1011101 10111010 1110101 10001110 00100111 10101010 1010111 00101110 1010101 10011010 1011101 11111101 10100001 11101010 1011111 10101110 1010101 11101110 1011101 10111100 1010101 101001100 1000101 10101110 1111101 10111110 1011111 10101110 1010100 11100111 1010111 101000010 1100101 11101011 1010101 11101111 1101101 11101110 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words on, like are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase shadow connects the lines.
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- summary of The Village Street;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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