This is an analysis of the poem Joy's City that begins with:

Joy's City hath high battlements of gold;
Joy's City hath her streets of gem-wrought flow'rs;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXabcc bbbbbb dbdXXX bbbbXb ccccaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101110001 1101010111 1101001111 11010011010 110111110111 110101110001 1101011101 1101010111 1101000101 0101010001 010001111101 100111011101 0101010101 01010101010 0101010111 1101110111 1100110011101 110101110101 1111010111 0101011101 1101010101 0101010101 010101001100 1110001110100 0101110101 1101111001 01110111101 1100110101 111101110101 110101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 278
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; hath, of, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words joy's, her are repeated.

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