This is an analysis of the poem Union Square that begins with:
With the man I love who loves me not,
I walked in the street-lamps' flare; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABab cdbd Aefe Afcf ABXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 001111111 1100111 11011111 0011101 11010111 101101110 111110101 0111110 11111111 10100100101 101010111 1010111 11111111 101111101 111011111 1110001 001111111 1100111 110111111 0010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- 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; on, we are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Union Square;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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