This is an analysis of the poem A Street Corner that begins with:
Here, where the thoroughfares meet at an angle
Of ninety degrees (this angle is right),... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbbab caXabbca dedeffde gegehhXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111110 0100101001 11101011110 1011110111 110101101 101010111 11010111110 111011111 101010010 100100101 1101101010 01010101 010110111 101110101 10101011010 1110101001 111001110010 10101101001 0101001110 10100101 1010100111 101011101 101011001110 110111101 10011010010 110101001 1001101110 110101101 1100100111 101100101 11011011110 101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 325
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length 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; and, their are repeated.
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- summary of A Street Corner;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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