This is an analysis of the poem Block City that begins with:
What are you able to build with your blocks?
Castles and palaces, temples and docks.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eecc ddff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111001011 1011001011 1111011011 11101011011 101001001001 1101001011 01101101001 101011111011 1001001011 01001011001 11101011001 01111011001 0101011101 1001001011 11101011001 1011001011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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- summary of Block City;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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