This is an analysis of the poem Springfield Magical that begins with:
In this, the City of my Discontent,
Sometimes there comes a whisper from the grass, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXbaXX AcXcbaXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 0001001001 0111010001 10001011111 0111110101 1111111111 1101000101 110101011100 0001001001 1001100101 1101111111 1111111101 1011010011 1010010101 1101111101 0001001001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 333
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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 is repeated.
The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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