This is an analysis of the poem Bronx that begins with:
I SAT me down upon a green bank-side,
Skirting the smooth edge of a gentle river, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXX XcXcdd deXeaa afafXX cdcXed egegdd ahchaa eieiiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010111 10011001010 1101010001 11011101110 01011101100 10111101001010 110110101011 10010100110 10011110110 10111111010 110100101110 1011011011010 010110110100 10011001101 11010101110 0111000101 110101100110 1111111011010 0111011101 01010000101 01010100101 1101010101 1001010101 11010010111010 10110011010 11011111010 10110011110 11000101100 01011100110 1001110100010 0111000101 10011101010 0100010101 010110001110 11111111010 11010011101010 10111100001 01001101010 1001000101 10111001010 1110110101 0101001111101 1101011101 1101011000 0111010101 1111010111 0101010111 110111011100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 287
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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