This is an analysis of the poem Metropolitan Nightmare that begins with:
I rained quite a lot, that spring. You woke in the morning
And saw the sky still clouded, the streets still wet,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeXacf gcheedgcXXbcXh fighjk degla ibbldfmh bbgcXlcfgkbnenobXmk mfhXbkjcdg oekldk abaomb liX bgXXem
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,14,6,5,8,19,10,6,6,3,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11101101110010 11011100111 1111101101010 1010101110010 01110110101 100011101001 10011011010110 11111011010100 11101 111101110 101101101110 001010010101 110010101101 10111100001 101110110100 1111101110001 11011111101 111010011111 011001101010010 1000100010100 011010111100100 1011101100101 110110101101 11010101011 1111101101101 110111110111 0110111010001 111110100 1101 0100101100110 011101101101 10101011011010 11010100101 110100110 111 0101001001001 1110101000111 110011101010 1101001101110 110011111011 011101101111 10111100111011 111001100101 01010100011 110010100101 001110011011101 1011100100101 0100111010110 010101100101 1111001101101 00111010101 10100101 110110101001 10110110101 110010001011 01101101111 11101011010110 1011001011010 010111101100 100011000010 010110101111 1101011011011 0110101001011 01000100111 0011100101100 111110101011 1110101101011 0 1 1110010 111111101101 0111010010100 1011010101011 0111100111101 111000101101 11101100010110 1011111101 1110 10011100101 1100011000010 110111001010 110111001010 1101110 11011 1101111111111 111110110 0101 11110111001001 1110111 1101 110011101101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 382
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 92
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; and, in, too, hot, to, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, in, he are repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Metropolitan Nightmare;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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