This is an analysis of the poem Walking Through The Upper East Side that begins with:
All over the district, on leather couches
& brocade couches, on daybeds...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbc deaXXe X aadXXceeaXc XdaXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,1,11,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001011010 0110110 10001011010 010100 0101001010 11010110101 10111010 0100101 10001010010100 101100100100 111111 111001010 011110110 1001001 01001010101 01011011 11100110 0100100110110 01010001010010 010110111010 1110110011 101111101 11110001110 01010111011 111101001 0101110110 10111110 101000110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; look, on, they, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, they are 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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- summary of Walking Through The Upper East Side;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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