This is an analysis of the poem Metropolanitis that begins with:

Busy planning appearances.
Incorporating cliques....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcXdccc XbXefb XbccaaXgah hhabiagcd chic iefXX jdbjijgd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,6,10,9,4,5,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 10100100 010101 1011010 1111001001 110010 100100111 101110100001 111010000101 01001100101 100000 010010011101 0010010001111 0110101 101010111 1011 100000 100011011 1111101 101110111 10001110101010 111110111 110100100101 0110101000101 0101111001 011 111011101 10100001010 011111 100001011101 1101 1010101010 100101 101101101 101011000010 1000001110010001 0010101 001011100101 10010110100110 101 1111101 101011100 11011 11101010 1110 1111 110010001111 0001011001010 1101 010001011 11 111010101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 51
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

    The author used the same word metropolanitis at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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