This is an analysis of the poem A City Winter that begins with:
1
I understand the boredom of the clerks...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xababcbcbbdbdee Xffffffff ghccgh XeiXiadadXjXjee Xjfjfbbbbkakall Xjffjfjjf mefefm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,9,6,15,15,9,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 1101010001 0110110111 01010010101 1111010001 1101011101 101110100 0101100101 0101011010 00101101011 1001010111 1111111111 1100110111 1101110101 1111001101 1 1101010101 1111010100 1111010011 1101110111 11010100101 1001010101 1010111100 1001111111 1111001011 1111001101 01110100101 1101110101 1110001001 1110010101 1 1111110101 0101011111 1010010011 1101100111 1001001101 0100010101 10100111001 1101111101 1001011101 0100100001 1101000111 0101010101 1111010101 1111010101 1 1111011111 0010001010 0101110001 1110011111 11110010111 0111101011 1101100101 1101010111 1001111111 0111010011 110010111 0111101101 1011110111 1011010111 1 111010101 1101001111 1110010001 1111001101 1010110101 0101001111 1101011111 1001011111 1101000111 1101010111 1101011101 1101010101 0111110101 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 423
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 75
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; our, and, my, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words has, and are repeated.
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- summary of A City Winter;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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