This is an analysis of the poem Shocking Are Some Scenes Seen that begins with:
So shocking are some scenes seen,
Downtown...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AabCcXDC Aaee fghaffXf bAgXbCcXDC gg hhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,8,10,2,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101111 11 101010101 100100 0100110 00111 0010101000 01001101101 1101111 11 111011 11110101 110010100 01111011001 1101100101 1100010 1010001 11010101 001111100 10010001 1 1101111 111101 101011101 0101 100100 01001100101 00111 0010101000 01001101101 11001010 01010100110 101 1111111000 11010111010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, be are repeated.
The author used the same word so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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