This is an analysis of the poem A Brook In The City that begins with:

The farmhouse lingers, though averse to square
With the new city street it has to wear...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffggeeeegghhii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0111010101 0011010101 0100110101 1101101111 1111110101 1011010101 1101110101 01001010111 0111100101 0101010001 0101010111 0101010101 1101010101 1101010101 0101110111 1001010101 0101010111 1111001101 0101010101 1111011101 11011101110 00010101010 0111110111 0111001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1014
  • Average number of words per stanza: 195
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of A Brook In The City;
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