This is an analysis of the poem Manhattan Streets I Saunter'D, Pondering that begins with:
MANHATTAN'S streets I saunter'd, pondering,
On time, space, reality--on such as these, and abreast with them,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc cde fgchijb djX XXgi a dkjl dXbm ljlcngXgcjXggmhdbopggXgXkoXa dpdclje pgnoX abeo ndbmXdddofXpcbdki
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,7,3,4,1,4,4,28,7,5,4,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011100100 1110100111110100 10 101011010010010110 10110111000100101 110100 010001 11000111000101 1101011100100 1011011101101110001 1101000111101001 101011101010010 00111 000101111001 01001001011110100 100111 11111101001010101000 0100100001011101000 1001010010101011 010111101011 1001100110100101101 11001001010110111111 01000100101110011 00001001000101110 1100010 110101100 101010111010010100 110001 01000111011 10100011010110010 0110011100011100 10 101100111 1110010010011100 110100110110 1100010010001011 110101110101111110 101001 11000101110011110 1111001 1100101111110 1010011110100010 1101100101011010 100110010101101 010 100001001010010111 1010 111101001010001011 1010000110110010000 110100011 1101111011101001 111000100111100011 11111111 11011001111101011 11101 10110110100010001 111101 011101110010 01111011110011001 01 11010010110011100 1010110110 01010010011001100 010110 110101101 1001001010101101 011010010101 011110001101010010 1011 1111110 111010010110101 10100 11001101010010101 1010010100 010101110101001 0110100010010100 01 10100111101000 111000101100010 110111100010001110 1101001101011 111101000110100110 101111000110101 11001 111011011011110 0101 110101101 10100010100100001 10010010010011010101 011
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 382
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 97
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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; all, or, of, not, and, any, on, by, from, that, has, who are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words all, the, now, knows, who 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.
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