This is an analysis of the poem In The City Of Night that begins with:
City of night,
Wrap me in your folds of shadow....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABAacaABdeABXfgABhibXeXedaAXXejeifkAkhdeajfAdABfkgdBXllXBXfcAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 62,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001 11011011 10011 101100001 101101010111001100 1010101 10011 11011011 1001110101110110101 1101101111001011 10011 11011011 100101011101010111 1110010110110110 1010 10011 11011011 1001101011100111101 100100101011010101010 010101 10101011100101011110 11110110011000101 010 101011101110001101 101011100100101010011 011 10011 11011010 1000101010110101010100 100101110000011 101010101010101 1001111101001110101011 1110110010 10101000111001010001 10101110101010111 10011 110101 100100100011010111010010 100110100101001001000101 101010111000100101110 0101011101010 100111110101010010010001 101011010011110111 10011 1010110 1001 11011011 100100101111110 101010111101001010101 1010100100110100 100100 11011011 100100100110110011110 1001010110101101110 111 100100 11011011 10010011010100111010010100 010001001110101101010001 10010101 1001 11011011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3193
- Average number of words per stanza: 526
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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; city, of, where, and, with, whose, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word city is repeated.
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