This is an analysis of the poem Brogan's Lane that begins with:
There's a crack in the city—down that sharp street
In couples, and armed, tramp rozzers on beat. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbBb XXbbBb ccbbBb XXbbBb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100101111 0101111011 10110100101 0011101101 101101 0101110101 11111101111 01101001001 11011111101 0101100101 101101 1101101101 11011001011 11001011101 111101001101 0100100101 101101 10101100111 0100111111 101011011011 1101111011 110101101001 101101 0101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 282
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; brogan, lane, s, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines lane is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word lane at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Brogan's Lane;
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