This is an analysis of the poem Come, Here Is Adieu To The City that begins with:
COME, here is adieu to the city
And hurrah for the country again.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbcdXd aeXeefff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010010 101101001 0111011 100111 01001011 0100111 101001011 0101001 0111110 1011101 11000110 1101001 11110010 11110001 111110110 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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; and, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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