This is an analysis of the poem Address For The Opening Of The Fifth Avenue Theatre that begins with:
NEW YORK, DECEMBER 3, 1873
HANG out our banners on the stately tower... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aabbcc ddeeffddaagg ddddXb hXccbbXcii eeccddccbb hhjjbbeeggccbXjjkk ccllggeeggbbiibbhhchc eemmcceXXdccjj ccjjbbgggXh ddddkkccjjee ccellddjjjbbcXcc ffbbcciiccjXccXdddddXgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,12,6,10,10,18,21,14,11,12,16,23,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101011 11110101010 01110101010 0101011101 0101010101 0101010101 1101001111 1101111101 0101110101 1101010101 1011110111 0101010101 1101000101 0101010101 010101101 010101010010 10011101110 01010100101 1101110111 11001010101 1101010101 110110010101 110110010101 11111100110 1111110101 1101011101 10010101110 1011110101 11001010101 1001010101 1001011101 1101010101 0111010101 1101011101 0111010111 11010100101 1111010101 1101100101 110101111 1001010111 1111010111 10111101001 01110011101 1111000101 1110111101 01010010101 0111100101 11010010101 1101010101 0101110101 1101010001 11010111001 1101010111 1001010101 11010101001 1101000101 0101011101 1001010111 1111011100 0101010001 11110010101 1101110101 11010100101 1011010111 1001011101 0101011001 01001111101 1111010110 1011011101 01010010101 01001010101 0101010101 010011001001 11010011111 0111110101 1011000101 1011010101 11010101001 0101010101 1001010111 0111010111 1101110001 111111011 1 1001011101 1101001111 010100100101 0101000101 01011010101 1101011101 11010111001 1101001100 01010010110 0111000101 01010101010 100101010010 1101010101 0111011001 11010010101 0101011101 10010111001 1101010101 1101010100 1011010001 1011001111 1011011101 11011101001 010100101010 1001001101 01011001001 0111000101 11010000101 1111010111 1101010101 1111011101 0111010101 11011101000 1101010101 11111101001 1101111111 11110001001 1101111101 110110111 11111110011 11010010001 0101010001 1101010111 0101010111 1001011101 1111010101 1011001101 0101110101 1101010111 01010001001 1111101100 11111100011 1101010101 1011001101 0101010111 1101010101 0111010101 1101010101 1101010111 1101010101 0101001111 1101011101 1101110101 1111010101 1111010111 1101010001 0101010101 0111010111 1101010101 1101011101 1101000101 11001010101 1001001101 1101010101 11010010111
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 503
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 159
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, here, of, and, as, his, on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, with, their, here, till, would are repeated.
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