This is an analysis of the poem The Town Between that begins with:
A WALL impregnable surrounds
The Town wherein I dwell;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdbd aeXe afbf Xgcg hifi dfdf cXhe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010001 010111 11110101 111101 11010111 010111 01010101 010111 11010101 010101 01110101 011101 11010111 010101 11111101 110111 01011100 010101 110011111 110101 110011111 010101 01010101 110011 111101001 010101 11110101 011101 11001110 111110 11110100 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; it, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Town Between;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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