This is an analysis of the poem The Quality Of Sprawl that begins with:
Sprawl is the quality
of the man who cut down his Rolls-Royce...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbX adebcf Xghchi XXcjhc jffjcd cjecc aXXbeaXfX cgjciXc Xh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,6,6,6,5,9,7,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100100 001111011 00010100111 010100110101010 0101001101010 1010111110010 110011011010101 00001101011110 0010100101101 1100101011001010 11001001010101 11001011011011 111101110110001 11001111001011 01101110010011 10110110100010 1101011 10110010111 100101001010011 1100010101010 10100100101010010 1011010110101 100110110101 101010010101 100101010101010 1110101010110 101001000100100 10101001001001 01110100 1110100101010 100111011101010 1010110001010111010 0100110111100 0110101000101011 101010100110010010 0100101101110 111011 101010100111011 001001110 01001010110100010 11010110100110 100100110101110 11001101110011 1101110101011 11110011001 1010101 0100011111101 0101000110101 1010100100101 11001011010111 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 293
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, sprawl, of, in, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, sprawl are repeated.
The author used the same word sprawl at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines paintings is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase sprawl connects the lines.
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- summary of The Quality Of Sprawl;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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