This is an analysis of the poem To The Silenced that begins with:
Oh, the great city's madness when at nightfall
The crippled trees gape by the blackened wall,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbc dbcdXcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10110101111 0101110101 010010100101 100101110101 1010100101 1100101010111 0101110100101 10100101111 101001001 11001101001001 10110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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 To The Silenced;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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