This is an analysis of the poem Which District Is This? that begins with:
When images accepted,
Become effective and significant......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacdd X Xdddeaebb ffbX Xaa fX ebgdd haX Xbgcb X dX X XXdhbgg XX ggdb X abXdad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,1,9,4,3,2,5,3,5,1,2,1,7,2,4,1,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100010 0101010100 01001010010 1010100 00111100 10100100011 110001 1101010001 110101101 010100010 000100101000100 110110010101 101001001101 10101010101 0101011001 00100101011 101 0111111 1 110001 1 111101 111110101 10011001 11101110001 10111010 010101100010 1 10101 110 110110110001 11010101 1110111010110 110 101001 11101 100110110011 1111 11 11111 0010111 1101111 11011101001 11101010111 0101011110 11100010 1101101 101 111 1 0110111 10010011101101 1 111 11010100010 10101011011 1111110001010101 101111010010 1011011100 110010111 10001000111 01100010111
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, to, no, i, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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