This is an analysis of the poem Since The Cities Are The Cities that begins with:
FOOLS can parrot-cry the prophet when the proof is close at hand,
And the blind can see the danger when the foe is in the land!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb cccc dddd eeff gghh ffii jjXa eeaa aakk aagg hXff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111010101010111 101110101010001 111010101110101 1110101010010101 101111101011111 101100101010101 111000101010111 111110101111101 101010101111101 111011100011001 101110111110101 111010111111111 101110101011100 111011101010001 111010101011101 111111100110001 111000111010101 001111101010111 111010101010111 111101100010101 101111101011111 101110111010101 101110101010111 101001101111101 111010101011111 001011101011101 1010110010101110 101010101111101 111010101011101 1110100101111111 111110101010111 111010101010111 001111101011111 111010101010111 111011101011001 101110100110101 1001110101010001 101001101010101 1001010101111111 1001110101110111 111111101111110 111111101110100 000110101011101 101110101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; not, and, we, us, our, men, every, or, all, tis, lean are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words shall, every are repeated.
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- summary of Since The Cities Are The Cities;
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