This is an analysis of the poem Small Urban Towns that begins with:
In small urban towns,
Where people exist......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABACADA AXefccg AbXXhX afbgfg aeXahebaXaa ABACADAgaXaab X X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,6,6,11,13,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101 11001 000010010 1111001 0010010 011001010 101011 01101 1010110110 1010111100 0111001111 1010101001101 1001110110111 10001010101001 01101 11000111111 101101111001 11111011101 111011101001 101010010101 101101 1001010100 001011001110011 10011100011010 0101000100 1101000101111010 1011 10011011101 1100101101011000 1110010110101 111011111 00111110 1011111010111 1011110011 1110111000 001001011101110 1101101111101 01101 11001 000010010 1111001 0010010 011001010 101011 1111011101 11111010011 0110101111 101101101 10001111101 01000010100 111011 010111101011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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, and, those, from, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words people, there are repeated.
The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Small Urban Towns;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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