This is an analysis of the poem Sparkles From The Wheel that begins with:
WHERE the city's ceaseless crowd moves on, the live-long day,
Withdrawn, I join a group of children watching--I pause aside with... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXX bXaXcdE acXXc bXdccE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,7,5,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1010101110111 0111010101011010 0 10101010010 01101101100011 10101100100011111 0101111001110011 11 11010100101 10001 011100101111011 011101101111 1010101 1110011001010001011 011010 01110011001010 0010101001110100 1 0111001010111 0101011100101001 10001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; he, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is 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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- summary of Sparkles From The Wheel;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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