This is an analysis of the poem Babylon that begins with:
If you could bring her glories back!
You gentle sirs who sift the dust ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaccddeeXXfgfghhhhiccigghhjjkkddfhXhfh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101 11011101 11000111 01011101 11011101 01010001 11010101 01110101 01110101 01010101 1010100 1010101 1010111 1010011 1010001 1110001 1110101 1010101 1010101 1011101 0010111 0110011 1110111 10000101 1011101 0010001 1010111 1010111 1110101 1110001 0101111 1010111 1010101 1010111 11000101 01010101 01011101 1000101 0010111 01000101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1280
- Average number of words per stanza: 241
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; her is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word if is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Babylon;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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