This is an analysis of the poem Philadelphia that begins with:
If you're off to Philadelphia in the morning,
You mustn't take my stories for a guide.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcbXbXX XAdA Abebfgfg fAXA AgXgehih XAca adbdefaaXagaia
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,8,4,8,4,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110101000010 1101110101 11010100101010 1101110111 1101010110100 101010101010 10101011111100 101010100110 0011101010 1011101110 0101101111101 101010100010 0110101000010 1101110111 110101010101110 10100011101 1011011110101 1101110111 11111011011101 1101010101 0011101010 1011101110 01011011010101 101010100010 0110101000010 11101111101 1101111101110 10100010101 00101010011101 101110101011 1111101010101 001010100111 1011101010 1011101110 01011011110101 111010100010 011010100010 1101010111 111111010101 0101110111 1011101101110 1 11010101010 1011101101010 1 1010100111010 1111101010 1001111010 011101111111 11101010010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 333
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; gone, still, there are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, still are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines morning is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word morning at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Philadelphia;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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