This is an analysis of the poem Calgary Of The Plains that begins with:
Not of the seething cities with their swarming human hives,
Their fetid airs, their reeking streets, their dwarfed and poisoned lives, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeaaXaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10010100110101 11011101111101 10010101100100 01010110010101 010111010111001 01110101011111 01010101010101 101010100011101 011101010100101 010010110010101 11010100010101 01010101010111 10010101110111 11110101010011 11110101010101 0101001000101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their, of, her, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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