This is an analysis of the poem The Ghetto that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcded dfcb dag ccXghhbc chidhjkl XgmhmcnodhlhXl bghmbcpgd X Xkjb hiahjhkdhg ldqrskcqdhXd scdhhhtcj ulhlgol alXqdhcl hdpddpbXpjagd XsjhsaclsdX gjhcpqh rdpbtqkddqcXhgqX dhjoqahk dhj X LGHHGcddap pdghddic mgcfgXlkanp gsddhjhdsvdbhd LGHHGscho X hchs gkhk hj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,4,3,8,8,14,9,1,4,10,12,9,7,8,13,11,7,16,8,3,1,10,8,11,14,9,1,4,4,10,8,6,8,3,12,13,12,6,10,11,20,1,17,3,9,9,7,11,1,8,6,10,10,10,1,8,8,10,8,11,7,4,9,1,4,3,3,14,10,9,7,7,1,9,9,6,7,7,7,5,5,5,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1101001 01001001010111 111101 100100101010 111101 01 100010101 101100110101 100110101 010101 1101 0010001 1010001001 111001 1001010100 101010101001 111001 11110 110100101111101 11101 110101 01000101101 10010001 10110101 111010001 1110011101010 00110100 1011110101 011100 101010 001101 11010 101001 110010 100101 100010 1011010110111010 1111010111 111 1010001011111 10110 111 0110011101 110100110110 010100 01010101 011 1001010 00101011 10100110101 0100010011 1 111100010111110 010 101101010 1011111011 110110110 110101 110101110101101 1111101 111111010 11110 110 111011101 11111 1100101 11101010001 1111 110110001 0011011 10001 10101010 1011010001 101001 111 110101 101010 010111 101001 111111011 1011111 1101001 1001 110111 111111 1011011 100110 11101110101 1101010 1110111001 1111001 1010101 0111010 10001 11101100101 110111 11110110 11001010 10110110101 110101 110111 110001 111 11111011 1111000 0101 110111 11010101110001 1100110101 0111001 1101010100 111001010 11110011 01110101 1111110101 0111011111 01110001 11010 11100101 111101 1001011 110111 10110001010 010111 0111 0101 111101 10110011100 10100 111101 10111010101 101010 111011011 10110110101 10010111 11011100 1111011111011101 01011101101101011 0100100111101110011 0011111001100 111101100110101 0101101 0101101101101 110110 101000 01001100100 1101011111010011 110011011111 1010100 100100 1011010101011111 0110 110010011 1011111010 1011111101 111101101100 101001010 110010101001 11111 10010 1 0101010 11001 10111 100010 10101 1010101 101 01101 101001 10010101 1011 1001 0101 101011 0010011 01111 01101 0101 110010 1111101 1110101 011 10011 110110 1110 1111010 11010111101001 1101 101 10011101 1010110 10101 01001001101 1110011001101 1101001010 111111010 001 101011 10011 01101 111110110101 0111001011001 10010001001 0101010 11001 10111 100010 10101 111011 111101 10011001 1010 1 10011 10111 10111 1001 1011101 1011100 110110 100100 10111 101110 10101 10011 1010100 10011 1010101 1010000 10011 10001 100110 10111 101010 10111 1010101 101010 1111 11001 1101010 101110 101011 101010 101010 11101 1010011 10111 101011 01111 1110101 10101 1010101 1101 1101 010001 11010100 0101 010001 0101010100 110101 1101 1101010 10111 01000101 110100 1 11101000101 0101010011 1010101 1000101 101101 10110 00111110101 111110 0101 110001 1101 010101 11001101 110010 10111 1101 100111 01010001010 100101 110111 011101 1101001101 11000101 11010 10101 11110 111001 1111101 0101 11110011 01011111 1101000010 11010111 101101 1111010 1111010011 111111 0101010001 1111011101 010101 110111 10110001 1101110101 1001011111 110101 1111 10011010100 110111 01111101 010100001 111001100 0111 0100010101 001100 10110 1011001 100100010 01000110 1101 1101010101 100111 1111010101 01101101010 11010 11111 00010 10111 1101 1101010111 11010111 110101 01110 10101 11010001 1 1110110111 1 11111 11001 11101 10110 11101 1111 10101 11011 110100101 11110 100111101 10011101010 11110101 01010 11 010101 1000010 10101 010110 0010111 1010101 101101001 11110 01101 010101001101 1110101 111111010101 1101011101 100101 110011 0111 110101 11100111 11100 01110010 010111 1111 01010 10011 01010 10101 100100 11101 11110101 1111010101 110101 1111 0011 1011 10111 10111010 1011101 101010101 11 1 001001 011110010 101010101001 01110 10111 01001001 11010 10110011 111111011 11010010111 11101 10111111 11010101110 0110101111101 10010010 111101 1100111 0101001 101110 100100100 0100101010100000010 111011 110101001 110010101 011110 1000110 1110110110010 1110101010 100110001110101 11010 1000010101101010 01001100 1001011011 10010101 01101000101 0110100 01101010101 1110 0100111010 1110 110001 0111010 110101011100 11111111011101 1 10011101 101010010 1001100 101001 0100100100 10011010101 101100101011010 100101 1010 0100011 1011000110 111 1101001110 1101001 11011000010011 111010 111 10011 1110011 1010 101101 11001000 1011100 11101101 101110 1010101 111010 010011100111 10110 011110110101 1111 1011011001 101010 1010 1010010 10110 101100 10100 1001 10010 111111 0101000 101100 101001 1001001 101000111011 111111101 10010010 11110010 011100 1000101010111101 100101 101010011 1101111 10101 11100 01110101 10100001010 110100010 101101 111111 010011 100010 10101000101 11010 1 111 101100100 1000110 10101010 11011110 10110001 110101011001 111 1011111 11100 100110 101100100101 110100010011000 1001 10011 101111110101100 10100 111011 0101100001101 1011011 111101101011 01111010011 1011101 101010010101000110 110001 111111101000111 0110 10111111111001 1010101111101110 110111 111111000100100 11101010 11011110 1101001 111 1011010010111000010 1111010100100011001 1100101 10011 1111001 11101100101011 1011010100 10110100101 111 1101010 1011001 11110100110 10100100110010 1101010001 110010 111001010 11111111010 1010101101 11010101 1011000101111100 01101 101010101011101010 1 01010001 111011011 1010110 01011 10010011 10110101 1101001 1111 101110111 100100 0101 110111 1100110100 10001110001 1101 100110101 11010101 1101010101 1 101001 111011 110111100100 1111010100 101101011001 1 01001 1000100010 1100111010 1001001 1011 01010 11010010 10100101 10100101 01000101 11010100 10011000101 101 0101001 101111 1001010 100110 110110010 10010011 100101 111001 0101 100100011 010011 1101011 110010101 00110011 1101010 11000101 111101010 1 11010 1110 10010100 1010011 10010010 10010010 01010100 10010 1101 10101 100101001 10010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 85
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 637
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; faces, to, or, and, her, pickles, old, words, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, he, or, sarah, the, out are repeated.

    The author used the same words the, what, egos, lights, life 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 night, babies, life are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases beads, life connect the lines.

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