This is an analysis of the poem Country Towns that begins with:

Country towns, with your willows and squares,
And farmers bouncing on barrel mares...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXaaa aaXXXXX bbbcac aaadcd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101011111 110101101 010100101 011011 1101001011 111101001 101010101 10011001 11110100 01010101 100110101 11110100 10010101 01010101 11010101 11110111 11011101 110100101 10111101 10101101 110100101 11010111 11011111 11011101 11011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; of, me, and are repeated.

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  • summary of Country Towns;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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