This is an analysis of the poem The Wail Of Two Cities that begins with:
Chicago, October 9,1871.
GAUNT in the midst of the prairie, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abcXbX dedded fgffgf aeddeX X fhbXh ahXfh diaai Xcddc fjddj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,6,6,6,1,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110101 10010010 111111 1111010 10111100 1011001 11011000 11010010 1101001 11111010 10010010 101111 1001010 11110010 101101 10111110 10111010 101101 10011010 10111010 10010101 010110010 10101010 1001101 10001001 100101 111010110 11011011 101101101 111010110 01101 10100100010 11011001 1010111110 110010110 100111 111110110 11011001 111110110 010110110 11001 110011110 01011101 1100111010 111110010 01011 1111010110 11011011 1111111010 1100110010 11001
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; her, thy, our, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.
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