This is an analysis of the poem From The Tenth Elegy that begins with:

Ah, but the City of Pain: how strange its streets are:
the false silence of sound drowning sound,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdXeXafcXgdXbdhfdXdhfgeXbgXgXbd Xh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110100111011 011001101 111101000010100 01010010100 11101111100100 11011111010 11111010110111 11111101001001 1010110110001 101010000100100100 11101100101 0101101011011001 01111011001 1101101111010 01011101001001101 10100101011 001001101001101011 10 111011 01010011100111000 110111101100 11111101001 10111110101111 10110111010011 1010101110110 01011010111001 00101101010101 11 1001111111 110110 100010110101 011010011110101 10111011001 0101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 918
  • Average number of words per stanza: 145
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
  • 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; of, and, her are repeated.

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  • summary of From The Tenth Elegy;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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