This is an analysis of the poem The Stones that begins with:
This is the city where men are mended.
I lie on a great anvil....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abb baa cbb Xdd edd eXf ccc dgg Xbb eee Xff ghh eef fee eii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0001011110 1110110 011110 11101001 1111001110 0100010001010 0100100101 1010110 0100100100 0111010110 1001111 100010 00100100 010001010 110011011101 011101010 11010 11101010 01101110111001 01010101001 10111 0001011101 01100010 0011100 10100011 1111010101 010110 1001010010010 0101000010 10111010110 010111000111 01001101 00010011 11011111110 1111011101 111010101 011111 1111110 1001010111 1001110011 01101010 00101 110101111 1101101001 110011
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, love are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Stones;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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