This is an analysis of the poem Manchester By Night that begins with:
O'er this huge town, rife with intestine wars,
Whence as from monstrous sacrificial shrines ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaaa bcbcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10011100101 1101010101 10011100101 11100001001 0101011101 1101011111 01010100111 0101010101 11010111001 1100010111 1101101101 0101011101 1101010101 1101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 316
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Manchester By Night;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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