This is an analysis of the poem The City that begins with:

Full of Zeus the cities: full of Zeus the harbours: full of Zeus are all the ways of men.
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbccccdXeeffegcceeeegehhbbggfXXchhiieeddaahhaaccaajj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,52,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 101010101010101110101 1101001101010 11110101010010 100110010101 111111110101 1001010010101 0101001010111 1111001111001 1100110101100 111111010010 110101010110 11010011101101 110011010101 11100010101111 1011010010101 010100010111 111111111111 1101001100010 101101100010 110101011011 1111010101001 1111010100101 011101010101 01010100101 010101100001 11010100100110 1111010001010 110111001101 01011100100001 1111110010001 1001011111111 11001101010 110101001101 100111010111 11110001101 011011011101 010101100101 111101100101 110101110101 1101010101101 110100110111 1101101111110 1011101111101 1101000100101 1111010101101 011111110111 110101110101 111101010001 01001010000111 011101010101 0101001000111 010101100101 101111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1462
  • Average number of words per stanza: 249
  • Amount of lines: 54
  • Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
  • 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; of, full, zeus, what, , and are repeated.

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

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

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