This is an analysis of the poem A Voice From The City that begins with:
On western plain and eastern hill
Where once my fancy ranged,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefeffgfg hcicdddd fgfggiXi jbjbfgXg dfdfhdhd ccacfhjh dgdgfkfk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 111101 01011101 111101 11110101 010001 01010101 011101 11010111 010101 01010101 110101 011010111 010101 11010101 110101 01011101 111101 11010101 110111 11110111 010111 01110111 110101 11111101 111101 01010101 110101 11010101 010111 110111111 110111 11111101 111111 11010101 011111 11110101 110111 11011111 111101 11011111 010111 11011111 101101 11011101 110101 10011001 1111101 10110111 010111 111111111 011111 11110101 111111 01010001 111111 11111111 110111 11111101 110101 11010100 010111 11010101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; i, to, when, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, when, and are repeated.
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