This is an analysis of the poem City Of Hopes And Golden Dreaming that begins with:
City of hopes and golden dreaming
Set with a crown of tall grey towers,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacac dadaacaC adadeceC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111010 100101110 100111110 101001010 101001110 10111101 1101001010 10111101 101001010 11101101 101011010 10111101 111111010 10011111 101101110 10111101 1001001110 100101011 11110010010 0101100101 111111110 10101101 101001110 10111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 300
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words all, keep, so are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word you at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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