This is an analysis of the poem The New York Skyscraper that begins with:
The Woolworth Building
ENORMOUSLY it lifts... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xababcabcacdeedfgabfbbffgheaieiiahjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110 010001 01001010001 111111 0101110101 0101010111 010100 0101 0101 10001 1111011111 100001 1001001111 1111 110100 110011 10011100100 1010100 0011 0111010101 11011 100111 110101110100 10010001001 0100100 0101110111 010101 011111 101111 1101 010100 1101 110110 0101000001 0101111101 1011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1109
- Average number of words per stanza: 185
- Amount of lines: 36
- 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; and, to, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word her is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase this connects the lines.
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- summary of The New York Skyscraper;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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