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

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FROM out the house I crept,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbcadebddbXafdfdffgghahe X gdiXdgcjjgcgkkkg X fllbkfbafbXkaa X kiikiibb a idjjdmbjdbamXabjbiXjmdaia a enioienoaiXiiie X fdifdigpigpdjooXiiffjjaXdadbbldjdajla X ndndnlgnlgikkiqiiqddaa X jdndjnfmcmcfomorr n ioaXiaoenbiibngfgbfpflp a ohhoddodndnj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,1,16,1,14,1,8,1,25,1,15,1,37,1,22,1,17,1,23,1,23,1,14,1,19,1,31,1,21,1,16,25,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 010111 0111111101 0101001101 1001010111 1111110111 1110110101 0101011100 11011101 11011101 11010111 1011010101 111110 0111110101 010111 10001011101 1000111 011100101001 11010111 11110101 1000001 1001010011 0101001 1100111101 01011111 001101110100 1 1111010101 01111100101 1110011101 11010111000 0101010101 1101011101 0111010101 111110 11010111 100111 1101110101 0111000111 1100110111 111101 110011 110101010101 1 111101 0101010 1111010 01010010101 11110101001 11110101001 10011101011 1101110001 0101010111 11010101 11011000 1101010101 1101111111 11001011111 1 1111110101 0111010111 0101010101 0101010111 0101010111 1001010101 1111000101 1101111101 1 110011 011101 0101010101 110111 1111010101 1100011101 11010101111 0101110101 100101011101 0111000101 1101010111 1100111 1000110101 11110100011 11010101 1100110101 1101010101 1101010101 11001011110 010101 1011010101 1111111101 0101010101 0111010101 0101010101 1 11111101010 0101000101 10011000101 1001010101 1111011101 11100101010 01001110101 0101010101 0101000101 01010010001 0101011100 1101010101 10010100101 1011110101 1101010100 1 1101010111 01010011111 1101000111 010011100101 01001010111 1111010101 0101000101 01010101010 11001110111 1100010111 11011100010 0101011101 1101010011 11010010001 11010111011 1001010110 01110100101 11110000101 01110101011 1111010101 01000010101 1101010001 0111110101 110011001000 0101010101 1101010111 11010111001 1001110101 0101010101 11010100110 1111010111 11010011001 1101010101 1101010111 1111110100 010111110 0101011101 1 1111111101 1011010111 1101010100 1111011101 1000011101 11011101010 0100110001 1100010101 1101000110110 0100010101 01010101011 01010110101 0111010101 0101010001 0100010111 10010010101 0011001101 1101110111 010010000101 111100111001 111111000101 0101010101 1 1111110101 1001110111 0100010101 1111100101 0101010111 01011101001 1101010101 0101111111 11110101 0101001111 0001110101 0111010101 011111 11010100101 110011 0111110011 0101010101 1 1111010111 1100011 10101100101 111100101000 100101 1101111101 0101010111 01001111100 0101001111 1101011101 0111010101 0101000101 111111 0101010101 0111011101 11001010111 1001111001 1111011101 1101001111 100010100 11000000111 110011010010 11000110010100 1 1100010011 1000101 1101001 1111010101 0111011101 1101100111 0101000111 110111 1110111 011101 1101010101 1100110101 111100100111 111101 010101 1011110111 1111111100 0001011100 110101010110 11011101010 110101 0101010101 1110110101 1 11110101 1010101 01110100 1111010100 1101111101 01000101010 1101010101 010100011010 11010100101 1010101 1101001010100 010101001 01010101 010101011100 1 0101010001 11010100101 0111010101 0100110101 1111010101 1101010101 0111010111 1001010001 0101010110 1011000101 1111011101 1101100101 0101111000 1001111101 0111010100 0101000001 1101111000 01011111001 1001010101 1 111111 1111110101 011111 11110100001 11010001001 11110101001 10010100101 0111101101 1001010001 1110110111 111111 0101110101 1101110101 1011010101 01110100100 0101010101 1101010111 1101011101 01001100101 0101111101 1111000101 1101010111 1111011101 11111100111 1101100101 0101010011 1101010101 0101110101 01001010001 0101101101 0111010001 1 0101110101 1111110101 1001010001 1011110001 0100100100011 1100111111 1101010001 11010001001 1011111101 1101010001 1101010101 1001000101 1100110101 1111000100 0101110100 0111111001 0101111001 11111101001 1101110101 11110001110 11110001010 1 01110111 01011101 010010101 01110011 01010101 11011101 10011111 01010111 11110101 101101001 110100101 100100101 11010101 11110111 010001001 01000011 11011111 00110101 01110101 11010111 11010111 01111000 11011101 110111001 11011111 01010111 10110101 01110001 11010101 10000101 11010111 11010111 11010101 01011011 01010101 01010111 011101001 01010101 110100101 01100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 33
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 451
  • Average number of words per stanza: 76
  • Amount of lines: 381
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • 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, to, of, with are repeated.

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

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  • summary of The Doom Of A City;
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