This is an analysis of the poem The Doom Of A City Part Ii: The City that begins with:

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A near the dying of that royal day ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabccabccdceedfgafgahihiaiaijj X efefcfcfcdcdcdddafaffcfhhc X fafgkgXgfhghllXffafmamcahckh X inniffffmccmciiccXXcgaagnffglfflobobdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,1,26,1,28,1,38,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 0101001101 1101010101 1101011101 0101110001 1011000101 0101011101 1111110011 0111010111 0101011101 1111010001 01110101011 010100111001 0101110101 0101010101 01111101010 01000010111 1101001101 010111001011 1101011101 1111010111 1101010101 1111011101 0101010111 01011111001 1111011111 1001010001 1001110101 01111101001 10001111101 1 1100010111 1111110101 010110111001 1111010101 1100010101 1101111101 0101110111 01110001001 0111011101 010011100111 1011010111 1111010101 1111011101 1101010001 1111110101 1101000101 0111001111 01001010101 01010101001 0101010011 11001010101 1111010101 0111011101 10110101011 11010101101 0011010111 1 01110111 1001010101 0101100111 11011100110 1101010100 11010001010 01010111000 0101110111 0101010111 1111000101 0101110101 0111100101 01010010101 1111010111 1001011110 0101010111 1111000101 1101110101 1101010101 111100001001 0101010001 1011000101 1101011101 0111011101 10011110101 1111000011 11001010100 0101110101 1 01001110101 01001010111 0101000101 1011110011 1111011111 11010101101 0111110111 10110011101 0111110101 1101010101 1111110001 0111111101 01110100101 1101111001 1111110101 10011010001 0101110101 1010010111 1101011010 10011010101 1101110111 1101111111 10010010111 1101110101 10010010100 1101010101 1111111101 0101010100 0101010001 01011100101 0111010011 1101010101 11111111110 01010001001 01110111110 0111110001 110100101001 0101001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 778
  • Average number of words per stanza: 134
  • Amount of lines: 128
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, as, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.

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