This is an analysis of the poem The Advertisement that begins with:
Whether to wend through straight streets strictly,
Trimly by towns perfectly paved;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXXXbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111110 10111001 11010110110 10011011 1011010010 1101010100 1001010010 1001000110 10011011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 350
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Advertisement;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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