This is an analysis of the poem The Cab Lamps that begins with:
The crescent moon and clock tower are fair above the wall
Across the smothered lanes of ’Loo, the stifled vice and all,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb cXaa ccdd eecc eeff cceeXccee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01011110110101 01010101010111 1001110111111 0101110111101 0111101111111 01110101111000 01101011110101 101010101110101 1001111101101 11110011011101 101110101010011 10101110101001 101000101011111 101111101011111 101111101011101 10111110111001 101111101011111 111011101010101 1011111010100010 111011101110110 1011000100010101 11111110001111 111110110011111 111110100010101 0111101110101 0111101111111 11111101011111 101101111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, oh, you, they, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same words the, oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Cab Lamps;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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