This is an analysis of the poem The Rural Life In New England. Canto Second that begins with:

In the gay and crowded city
Where the tall and jostling roof-trees... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdcedfd bbcea bdbfefdab gbXdbfedhi dbacdXcf afigjXdjbfdfbfj dfcekcbbcdf fibdbf lmbfbhfndd ckfimckhdcoid ccdfmfmh bcjfc iddcf dccpfp XdfmeccbXcgcdhe cjffcXpiXiX paegjfqqeqebc dpaXaX ckghcid bcbhdb cgcbbXg fdbfbmedff cXgbicdf ijefcd HebcbbgX H
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,5,9,10,8,15,11,6,10,13,8,5,5,6,15,11,13,6,7,6,7,10,8,6,8,17,7,7,10,4,5,6,8,10,4,8,4,13,5,11,8,6,5,10,6,11,12,11,16,11,14,16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00111010 101110011 10101010 10001111 11101010 00111011 00101010 10101010 10001010 101010010 101110001 11100110 10101110 10101010 10101110 001001010 10100110 00111010 11101010 10101010 00101010 10100010 10100010 10111010 00110010 10101100 11001010 10101010 11001010 101001010 00100010 00100001 10101010 10101010 1010100100 101010100 10101110 10101010 10101111 10101010 11101010 10101010 100100010 100111010 10101010 110001010 10100100 11101010 101000010 00100110 10101010 10100010 10111110 100110010 101001010 10111010 11001010 10101010 10101010 10111011 10011010 10001010 10101010 00101010 10101110 10101010 10111010 100101010 100010010 101010010 10011010 11100110 101010101 1010101 10101010 01101010 00101110 100101010 10111010 11101010 10101011 11101010 10101010 00101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 11101010 10001010 00101010 10111010 0100010 101010010 11101010 11101010 11101010 10101010 10101010 01101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10111010 10011010 10101010 10001010 10001010 10101010 10101110 101010100 10001010 10101110 1110100100 11001010 11100100 00001010 11111010 10111011 11101010 10101011 11101100 10001010 00111010 110011110 10001110 10001010 00101110 10111010 001010011 11101010 00101010 10101110 10101110 10101010 10101110 1111110 11101110 11101010 10101010 10111110 10011010 10101011 01100110 100011000 10101110 11100011 10101101 110101010 10111010 100101010 111000010 10101110 11110010 1010 0010 01111010 011010100 11111010 10100110 10111110 01110111 11111010 00101110 11101110 11111011 01101010 10100010 00101010 10100001 10100010 10101110 100100100 10111010 00101010 11101010 10101011 11101010 10101010 01101010 11001010 11101010 10101110 10101110 10101000 10111010 10110011 01101010 10100010 11101110 10101110 01100110 10111010 00100010 10101010 10100010 10101010 01101010 11101010 01101010 11101010 11111010 10111010 10011010 111100010 01101010 10101010 01101010 11101010 00101010 101000011 10101010 100010010 100001010 10111010 101001010 100100011 00111010 101000011 10100010 101010011 11100110 00110010 00101010 10111110 00101110 11111010 111 01100 10101011 10101010 10111010 10101110 10101010 10100101 11101010 10101110 10111011 10101010 11000110 11111010 10101110 00101010 00101110 10011011 110001010 10101010 00101110 00101010 10101010 11000010 100110010 10100101 10101010 10101110 00101110 110101010 10101010 10101010 11101010 10101010 001000100 10111010 11111010 100111011 10101011 10111010 1110010 10111010 10101010 10111010 10111010 10101010 10101010 10111010 001010 110 10111011 01101010 10111010 10101110 11111110 10101110 01101010 11101011 10101110 10101010 100111010 11101110 11101110 10110010 00101110 11011011 10101011 10100110 10111010 10101110 11101011 10101110 11100010 10101110 00101010 10101010 100100010 10111010 10101010 10111110 10101010 101010100 11101111 10101010 10001110 101001110 10111010 11101010 01111010 00111010 10101010 10101011 11111010 001011010 1001001010 11101010 11100010 00101010 11101010 11101010 11111010 11001000 10101010 10101010 00110010 00101010 11110010 00101010 11101100 10101100 11001010 10111010 11101110 11101010 11111010 11111010 11101010 1011111 10101010 10011100 11111010 10101010 11101110 1011110 11101000 10111010 10101110 10111011 10101010 10101010 11111010 00101010 101001010 10111110 10101010 10101110 11101010 00101010 10101010 11101010 10101010 10111010 001110010 111010110 10111010 10001010 10101010 101001100 00101010 101001010 10111010 10101010 10101110 10111010 10111010 101001100 10101100 10100010 1010010010 101010010 011000100 10101100 10111010 10101010 10011010 1000101010 10101010 100001010 10101010 01101010 101011000 00100010 10101010 100011110 10101010 10101010 10111110 100111010 111001100 10101011 10101010 10111110 10101010 10101010 00011110 01101010 10100010 10110010 101000100 11001010 101101010 10100110 11111010 00101110 11111010 10101110 00101110 10001010 00101010 00100010 01100100 00100010 11110010 11001010 10101110 10111100 1101110 00101010 11111010 11101010 10101010 10111100 100101010 110101 10101110 01100010 10101010 00100010 01101010 10101110 11111010 01101110 11111110 11101110 10100011 10111010 10111010 00101010 10111010 101001010 10100010 11101010 00111010 10011110 10101010 01101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 69
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 479
  • 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 punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; men, of, her, his, in, and, by, to, its are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words jealous, men, this, very, pleas'd, gazing, by, so, oh, ask'd, and, of, in, may are repeated.

    The author used the same words there's, when 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 perish, threshold, her, sighing, ', terrors are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase pity connects the lines.

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