This is an analysis of the poem The City Of The Dead Xx that begins with:
Yesterday I drew myself from the noisome throngs and proceeded into the field until I reached a knoll upon which Nature had spread her comely...
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- Rhyme scheme: X X a X X a a b X b a X X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111100101101000010111010111011010101111 111101001000100111010001101001 101101011011011011001101010101101111010101010101111011101100101100101010001101010010101101 10101000110100010110001100010100011010100010 0010001011110111101110111001110100 001000110101011101000110001010110010011001111100010110010101011000010011001011010110001101011000111010101110100101001101010001011011001101010110110010001010101101100101010110001101 1101010101001100011011001100010111010101011100011010 0111001001011011000010110100111011010000101101100101010110 1111110010010010101010010010101001101011001101101101111010111010 0101100010110101000100011110010101010111100100010 1110100110100010000101001011101101010011010101111101101110111010101 111010001011011101010010111010110001111011010011110010010100 11101101011000110111001011110101110100100
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 242
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 243 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 43
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, of, and, field, in, city, then, to, into, dead, by, at, casket, few, dog, place are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, in are repeated.
The author used the same words i, in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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