This is an analysis of the poem Georgetown U.S.A. that begins with:
If you would hear the thrushes sing,
Then go to Georgetown in the spring,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb dddd eeff eebX ggaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101 110110001 11010111 01010101 01110111 01010101 10110101 1110101 010101011 01010101 10010101 11110101 11010101 01011111 11010001 11111101 01010101 11010101 010001001 01010111 01010101 1100101001 11010101 011101101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Georgetown U.S.A.;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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