This is an analysis of the poem A Sunset Of The City that begins with:
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
My daughters and sons have put me away with marbles and dolls,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabcc cdXd eee afbf baaa ghhXegg X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,3,4,4,7,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101111011010011 110111110101011 11001 11011011011101 1101 000111 01001 11101111100110 01111101001 0010111100101 0110101101 01001011101001 0001110111 1101101001 10111 1010011 111001101 11101100111 110101101001101 11010110101 1101000101001 1011101 1110110001 1101000101 1111010101 010100101001 0101010111 1101001101001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; and, i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i are repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Sunset Of The City;
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