This is an analysis of the poem Not My City that begins with:
This isn't the kind of city,
Once I called my own....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcda cXdeXXXeddXXcdXXbddda X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,21,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00001010 11111 010010101010 010010110111010 10100110 0100101100 011101101 010010101 101010010101 111101010101001 0001000100 1101000100010 101001 00010001 110011010010 11100100 1001001101 0001000110 100110101010 111010111010 101010100101 0010101101110 10101001 101010 10101 1110 0101101000
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 330
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; to, city, of are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word city at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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