This is an analysis of the poem Bedlam Town that begins with:
Do you want to peep into Bedlam Town?
Then come with me, when the day swings down,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccXX ddcXXd aadd aaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1110100101 110110111 000101101 110100101 10100101 101001101 11100111 101111111 10101111 111101011001 0100100111 11001001010 110111111 111010101 010100101 1001001001 0010100101 1111001001 1101001110 0101101010 1100100110 10110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; and, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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- summary of Bedlam Town;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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