This is an analysis of the poem Street Lanterns that begins with:
Country roads are yellow and brown.
We mend the roads in London town.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc bb dd ee bbXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111011 11010101 10010111 10011101 1100101 0010101 1010101 1010101 1010101 1110101 1010101 1010101 1000111 1010100 1001111 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 61
- Average number of words per stanza: 11
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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.
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- summary of Street Lanterns;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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