This is an analysis of the poem The Illuminated City that begins with:
THE hills all glow'd with a festive light,
For the royal city rejoic'd by night:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXcbb ddeeffeX eegghhee cchhccbb eeiiiigg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 011100101 1010100111 10111011011 100101101 100110110010 101010011001 10110100111 1110110111 1110110111 1100101101 1110101101 0100100111 010100101 010100101 11010011001 1001001100 11110101101 101111101 101100111 100111111 1100110111 1100100101 11110111101 1010101101 1110100101 110110111 1110110101 01001001111 100110101 1001101001 1101100111 111101111 110101101 001101111 101101101 1000111111 11011011011 0111110111 1100110101 111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 350
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
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- summary of The Illuminated City;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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