This is an analysis of the poem Night In The City that begins with:
The sluggish clouds hang low upon the town,
And from yon lamp in chilled and sodden rays ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb adcdXccac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101110101 1011011101 01011010101 1101000101 0101011101 0101010101 1011010101 0101110101 0101011111 110011101001 1101010101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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