This is an analysis of the poem Manhattan that begins with:
Out of the night you burn, Manhattan,
In a vesture of gold - ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcddbeeXXX bXfgbfdgX bcaXcedXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,9,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111010 001001 10010001 1011010 1101001010 000100101 1100100111 10011100 10010101 1100100100 10010100 01001 10011100 101011 100110101 110101011 10101001 1010010 100101 1110101100 1001 1010100100111001 0111 100110 101110 10010100 10011010 100100100 01001010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 29
- 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; of, and are repeated.
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