This is an analysis of the poem Point Shirley that begins with:
From Water-Tower Hill to the brick prison
The shingle booms, bickering under...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcbcba defefXXd bgfgfgfh dfhfhfXd dfififid hjkjkjkh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010100110 010110010 0101 100111001 01011 010111001 0101 10010101010 0111011101 11011111 1101 10110111 1111 1100101010 01110 1100001001 1010010100 11011001 1001 0010111011 1010 010110111 00101 0100110111 111100101 010110111 011 110101100 011 1101001 010010 1101010001 11011101 0100111101 10001 11110111 1111 1101111 0111 0111010101 111011101 01110100 0111 11110011 1101 110111001 01101 01111100111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 254
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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 Point Shirley;
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- idea of the verse;
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