This is an analysis of the poem Dedication that begins with:
To the City of Bombay
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbc dededX fefe gegege fbfbfb hbhbhb aaaX aiaiai jkjk igiXgeeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,6,4,6,6,6,4,6,4,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010001 0101101 100101 000101 1001001 111111 111111 101111 1101101 1011011 1101011 1011100 110111 1101101 10101101 11100101 111001 11100101 110101 100111 110111 110101 111101 110101 110101 100111 110111 111111 110101 110001 110101 111111 111101 100111 1011001 100001 11110111 1011011 110101 1001001 1111001 0101101 1011101 110111 110111 111111 010001 1111101 100101 100101 111100 110011 1011101 0100101 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Dedication;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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