This is an analysis of the poem O City, Look The Eastward Way that begins with:
O CITY, look the Eastward way!
Beyond thy roofs of shadowy red and grey ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcccdbecdeXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11010101 01110100111 1101010101 1001101 0111001 1001010101 1000110011 110101 0011010101 1101010001 1111001 01 110111 0011001101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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