This is an analysis of the poem In The City Of Slaughter (Excerpt) that begins with:
Proceed thence to the ruins, the split walls reach,
Where wider grows the hollow, and greater grows the breach;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcb Xccdd XXXXXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01100100111 1101010110101 1100101010101 11110111101 01010111110 1101110101 1010101010 010101010 10101010 1111010101 010011 1100110000 1001010101 0011000101 110110001100 1011110101 1001110111 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of In The City Of Slaughter (Excerpt);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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