This is an analysis of the poem Rhapsody that begins with:

515 Madison Avenue
door to heaven? portal...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXXcdeccXXXf gheiejXjk bldahhXXic cchgfgah hacfkXl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,9,10,8,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100101 101010 1010010101000 11101000100100 110011110101010 100010010 111 1010010010010 111000111 11011010100 101110101 01100111011 1111010101010 1001011111 0111010101 110010111010101 1101111101 111101111001100 100010011010010 101011110100 101111100010010 111101001010011 01010000010010 10100110010010101 1001010110100110 1110000111111101 101010110101010 10111010110111 11001101001100 1111110110110 01001101011101 0101011010101001 1011111110111 101001101010001111 0000101111010 110110101110101 0100111101001010001 1010101010101001 1011100101010100101 1110110111111 1111100010 101011111100101 100010111110110 00101000010010 11101110111 00101000010101101000 01000101001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 481
  • Average number of words per stanza: 84
  • Amount of lines: 47
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in, of, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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  • summary of Rhapsody;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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