This is an analysis of the poem South State Street: Chicago that begins with:
Rows of blankly box-like buildings
Raise their sodden architecture...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBCadaefghaXXaiXhhjjhbjhffkkjfXgdkjajfagaakXhhcggaaabbfjjdg cghlgahXhhgalXgahXXfhhbaggedliehf gcfgakhXhXehfXXXchhiaBC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 59,33,23,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101110 11101010 000110001 11111101100 101110010 001110001 111110101 0101010011 110101010 1010100 101010101 1011011 1010100 01001101 0111011101 1 1001101 1010101 111101001 10101010 10100010 10101001010 101010111 1101010101 101110101 010101001 0111110101 110101010 001010101 111010101 10101010 00100101 011111000 1010100001 1001101010 0010101 1110101010 10111110 10111001 01010111001 1010010011 01010101 1001101110 0011100 11110111 111101 0001010001 1100010100 1000010111 111110101 10011001010 101101001 10111010 1010011110100 101011101 0010001 001110001 1010110100 11010110 101000101 001001010010 110100010 1011011011 0101010100 100010101 10101111 11010001 1111000101 1101010 010100010010 01010111 01010101010 110001 0101000101 11010100101 100001101010 111010101 1 0101000101 1010101 101000101 10100001100 101010011 101010101 001011101 01110101 100010100 0010111011 1010101 1010101001 101010111 111101101 100100100001 1011100101 1110100010 101010010 1111101011 101001100 101000101 1010110010 1000111 00101010 10000111 0101111101 101010101 1010100 0011101 100101001 1110101 101011001 1101010011 11010101110 11101010 000110001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1035
- Average number of words per stanza: 175
- Amount of lines: 114
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; with, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word his is repeated.
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- summary of South State Street: Chicago;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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