This is an analysis of the poem The Municipal Gallery Revisited that begins with:
AROUND me the images of thirty years:
An ambush; pilgrims at the water-side;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abababccbdbXbdXX XeaeaeaffgXghgheebibibcc dhchchcee Xejejejaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,24,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01101000100 1111010101 1000110110101 101010001001 1010010011 01010011101 01010000111 01010101010001 1101110011001 10010010111 1110001111100 010101010011 010101010011 100110000101 1101110001 1101001101 1 1100010111 1101000101 01011111101 110011000100 01010010101 111100011 101001011011 11110101101 100100010100 10110010011 0101010100 11001111101 0111110100 1110011111 0110010101 1111010001 11001110111 1011001111 1011111101 1011110111 11011101101 1111111111 1111010101 1 110101010101 11110101001 1110111111 1101100101 1110110111 1101010111 1011011101 1001010101 1 1111011101 1001010111 1111111101 0111100101 1111011101 10100011001 1111010111 1111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 594
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, that, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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