This is an analysis of the poem The Great City that begins with:
The place where a great city stands is not the place of stretch'd wharves, docks, manufactures, deposits of produce merely,
Nor the place of... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXb XXcXcccc aXccXbbccccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,8,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101101010101101101001000110 10101001011010101000010 101001011001011101001001 10100111011101110010 1010011001010 1010100101010011 10101100101111000111010 111000101010010111 1100011100001 101110110001 1011010100110 1010011101010100100001010 1111101110100100110101101 111010010111001000010100 101000110110111011010011111011 110110010011001101 11010001010001 110101011010 110101001000101101 1110010010111001101 10100010011 10100010000101 101000100101 101000110101 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 598
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 71 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, place, nor, and, where, to, in, city, stands are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nor, where are repeated.
The author used the same word where at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines men, stands are repeated).
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