This is an analysis of the poem The Sheep And The Goat that begins with:
The thousand streets of London gray
Repel all country sights;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaab cdccd efeeX fbffb agaag hihhi jgjjg cgccg kXkkXXeieei
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 011101 11110111 11010111 010101 11111101 110111 010101001 11110101 110101 1100101 110111 11000101 11011101 110110 10110111 010111 11010011 11100111 010101 01011101 110001 10111101 10011101 010101 11010111 1101001 10010101 10010101 011101 10110111 1111001 11011101 110111101 111101 10011111 110111 01010111 01111111 010101 11011101 011110 10010101 11010110 010111 11110111 111111 11011111 01000101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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- summary of The Sheep And The Goat;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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