This is an analysis of the poem Dead Cities that begins with:
Out of it all but this remains:
I was with one who crossed wide chains... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcbcdddXaXeeffddddaacggcaaXchihibbdggdjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011001 11011111 00100011 10010101 01010101 11010111 11011111 11001101 01000111 01011100 010101010 110100100 01011101 01011111 11011101 11110101 11011100 1101101 01011101 101010101 11010101 11000101 10010101 01010111 111100101 01000101 11110101 111101010 1010110 11110111 11011111 01010101 01011001 10011011 11010101 01010101 01010111 01010001 01010101 11011101 10011101 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1389
- Average number of words per stanza: 257
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, the are repeated.
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- summary of Dead Cities;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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