This is an analysis of the poem City Sidewalks that begins with:
Pockets of people and clusters of some;
the running of errands while businesses hum; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeec Xbdd X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001011001 01001011001 1111011101 101001111011 1001011001 01011010111 1001110011 100111011 1111011001 01111101111 101101100111 011001101 01001001001111 01011101 01001011111 101101001111 1010010011111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; of, and are repeated.
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