This is an analysis of the poem The City Revisited that begins with:

The grey gulls drift across the bay
Softly and still as flakes of snow ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcXdecXefdgdfg fXhhcc ffaXbbddcecXX fcefgghhbbccffffeehXh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,6,13,21,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01110101 10111101 01010111 11110111 11110111 100101010 111101001 11011101 01111101 01010101 11010101 01010101 10010101 01111101 11010111 11011111 00110011 10111011 010111000 11011000 11110101 11010111 11111111 11110001 01110111 11010101 10111100 01010111 00111111 01110101 11110101 11110101 10110101 11011111 10110111 1010101000 11111101 11 010101 10111101 01001101 11011111 10111101 01110101 11011101 11011011 10110111 10011101 11110101 01001111 10011111 10010101 11011111 01010101 10010101 111101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 402
  • Average number of words per stanza: 74
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i are repeated.

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  • summary of The City Revisited;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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