This is an analysis of the poem In The City that begins with:
Oh ! City girls are pale-like,
And proud-like, and cold-like.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcddXc eebfggXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111 111111 1111010 110011 1100011 011011 11110100 110111 1100011 011011 1111010 010111 1111011 011011 11100100 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, like, hills, place, road are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines like, hills, place, road are repeated).
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