This is an analysis of the poem The Fight With The Dragon that begins with:

Why run the crowd? What means the throng
That rushes fast the streets along?...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcddeefXfX bbggdddXhihX jjddeejjbkcX jjeebbXllmlX nnjXXehXdjdX eeoobbddgkgX eejjbcjjdXdX hhkkggjXeceX nXbbjjmmdjdX hhjjddjjjejX mmnnddlldjdX eeiijjppjdjX eeXbjjdddedX jjbbcbjjijiX hhhhqqeejdjX qXmmbbddXbdX ddjjddeeaiaX eXbXmmjjdjdX jjmmhhmmnpnX aajjjjXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101 11010101 11010110 01110100 11010101 01010111 01110001 01011101 01010101 01110111 11011101 01010101 11010101 110010111 11111101 01011101 110010111 01010101 11011001 101101010 101010111 11010101 01100110 11010100 10010101 01011101 01010011 11010101 11101101 101010111 01011101 1100111001 010001001 010100111 01010100 0100011100 11010111 11011111 11000111 01010111 11110111 011111000 110100010 11111010 11010101 11001111 101011101 0100101110 10100101001 101010101 01010101 11001011000 1011101010 01010111 101010110 100010010 11110101 10010101 01000111 110101010 100110101 11111101 11110111 11100101 11111101 01110101 11000101 01011001 110100101 10110101 01010111 1101010100 100111101 11010101 11000101 01010111 11001111 01011100 01111111 01011101 01000111 11000100 01010101 1011001100 101110001 01000101 11010101 01000101 01010101 0100101001 11010101 11010110 11111101 01010010 11110111 111111010 101111111 110101110 11111101 11010101 11111101 11010101 01010101 00111111 11010111 01010101 01010101 0111010100 101010101 11010101 01010101 10010101 10011101 01010111 01110111 11000111 010101001 10010101 110101001 110111110 101010101 010111001 11000111 010001001 11010101 01011111 01010101 01010101 01011101 01000101 01110101 101111010 101010101 01010100 11010101 10110101 11011101 01100101 11011111 11110101 11111001 11111111 11110101 100101110 101111101 1101100101 11011100 11011101 01110001 11011001 11110101 01111101 11111111 11110101 11011101 110101100 101011101 10011111 10011001 10011101 11111100 111111001 110010001 11011111 11011101 01110111 11111101 0101011000 101110101 11010100 11010101 01011101 11011101 01010001 01010101 11011001 11110101 01000101 11110011 110101010 100010101 01010110 100100111 110111111 11010111 01010111 10110111 11011101 100101010 01011101 01011101 011111010 101010101 11010101 11100101 11011101 10010111 11010111 11111100 01111001 010111001 01000101 11111101 1111001100 101110101 11110110 11011111 01111101 11100101 110111001 10010101 11111101 11110111 110101101 100101001 110101010 101110101 11010101 11010111 11010111 110010101 01000101 11110101 11110011 01010011 11010101 11010101 111101010 100111101 11110101 11011111 11110111 01010101 10111001 011100100 01011111 11110111 11010011 11110101 110101110 101101111 11111100 01100101 10010111 10010001 11010111 111100001 10010101 11110101 11110101 01000111 1111110110 01011101 110100101 110111110 111101110 01010101 110010101 01010101 10010101 11000101 01011101 11010101 11110101 11110101 11110101 11010101 01011111 11100111 110010101 01010111 11010101 11001101 11001101 01010101 110101100 110110101 010010101 1111111 10110101 01011101 01010101 110010010 01011110 11010111 11110111 11011101 010111110 010011101 01010111 01011101 01010101 100010011 10010111 11011001 01110011 101011111 01010111 11010101 110110000
  • Amount of stanzas: 25
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 440
  • Average number of words per stanza: 78
  • Amount of lines: 300
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and, he, in, i, its, of, to, as, had, my, his, him are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the, and, to, its, my are repeated.

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

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  • summary of The Fight With The Dragon;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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