This is an analysis of the poem The Indian City that begins with:

What deep wounds ever clos'd without a scar?
The heart's bleed longest, and but heal to wear... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aab c d ddddccccccaeffggcccchhccaa ddggffiicc ccdjbbkkll ddmmbbaa nnooggnn X ooiibbooddbb oXnnooccdd iiccddooccbb hh bbddggddnn ccdjllhh ddbb eeggnnccddbbkkbbaX cccc X ooaaggccdddd bbppbb bbccaann ffhhbboobb qqnndd ooddooooff ccnnooppii ooccmX bbcc ccXg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,1,1,26,10,10,8,8,1,12,10,12,2,10,8,4,18,4,1,12,6,8,10,6,10,10,6,4,15,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111010101 0111011101 1110000 110 1 100101101 10111100101 00101100101 110100101 1011110111 011111101 1010100101 1111010101 1010100101 1011010101 1010100101 101001001010 10010101 110101111 1001101010 11101001110 110101111 010111101 10010101 0010100101 110110101 110100101 1011101101 1010100111 1010100101 11010101 110010101 1010100101 111010101 10100100101 111110101 0011101101 110100101 1011100111 1011100101 0010100101 1110101001 0010100111 100100111 111011100 0101001001 111010101 111100101 111010101 1011000101 111100111 1010110111 1010100111 1011100101 00100110111 10011111 10010100101 1100100101 011111111 010100101 10101100101 110110101 110100101 1001001110 00101010010 101001001011 011010101 1 0111001010 001110110010 010011111 1111100101 010110111 01000100101 101110101 001011111 10110100101 1011010101 1110100111 1101110101 101010111 111011111 010110111 1011100101 100100111 1100100101 010110101 0010111101 011100111 10010001101 0111001001 01011111 101100111 100100101 10110101111 1001000101 111100111 1001001001 111011111 101100101 1100100111 110100111 111111101 100100111 011100101 1011110101 111111000101 100100111 1110010101 0010100100 1111001101011 100110111 100011111 0011101011 1111001001 11110101 1111101 011100100 101011111 1110100110 111110111 10010100101 111000111 001111101 110100101 111110101 111111010 1110101110 11010101 101000101 110100101 110100101 110100101 0010100101 110100111 010010101 001110111 011100101 11010111 111101111 111100101 011010100 100110101 01101101110 10100100111 0100110111 1010100111 1010100101 1 101100101 10110100101 01001011001 1101000101 01010010010 11011001010 1011110101 10100100101 1011110101 10100100111 101101101001 110100101 111100101 110100101 110010111 011101101 110110111 1010010101 100010111 1011110101 110100111 110101001 0101100101 10110100101 10101101001 10110101101 100100111 1011101101 1100100101 1011001101 10101010101 1101000101 011110101 111010101 1010100111 1010100101 11010101 111100101 101100101 101100111 010110101 110100111 1001100101 1010110101 100100111 110100101 1011011001 010100101 11101011011 011111101 10101101011 1010101101 011100111 111110111 1100110101 10010100111 1110100101 11100101111 110011101 1101001001 0100110111 1110100101 1101101101 10101100101 1101000111 111100111 111110111 101011011110 1010110101 1111100111 1011110101 1010110111 10100100101 1000100101 1101101010 10111101001 10100101101 1010110101 10100101001 10110101101 1011011101 110110101 011100101 010110101 10101100101 010101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 30
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 327
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 237
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, his, and, they, had, her, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, for, the, they, not are repeated.

    The author used the same words she, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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