This is an analysis of the poem A Worldly Country that begins with:
Not the smoothness, not the insane clocks on the square,
the scent of manure in the municipal parterre,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbccddeeffXXgXgghXXXffhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010011101 0100100010010 10100101000101 101111010010001 0110111100110010 11111010110 010110101111 110101101011 11010010010 11110101010 111100111001010 1011111010010 01111111101 110111010101 10011010101 01011111101 111100110110 01010010110 1011011101 11110101011 101111011 101101011001000 1011101010100 11001010111010 101011010101010 11111100010001 111010011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 675
- Average number of words per stanza: 126
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; not, and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word not is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines in is repeated).
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