This is an analysis of the poem In Collins Street that begins with:
I stood in the heart of the city street,
I felt the throb of her pulses beat,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Aabbccddaaeeffgg Aacceegg eehXhhgg Xdiieecc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1100100101 110100101 0100110101 010010101 1010100101 10100100101 0011110111 0010100111 1010101101 111100101 011110101 010110101 010110101 1010100101 011111111 1010100101 1100100101 11110100101 1010110101 1111100111 1011011111 1110100101 101010010101 1010110101 1111010101 011100101 0101101001 111100100 111100101 011101101 110100101 010100101 1111010101 111101111 110111101 1010010101 11100110101 111101111 11110110101 1010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 414
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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; of, and, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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