This is an analysis of the poem Love Of Jerusalem that begins with:
There is a street where they sell only red meat
And there is a street where they sell only clothes and perfumes. And there...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXabX XbXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10011111011 1100111110110111 0011111010101 11100100110110101 1110111101 1110001 11110001 1111111 1111111 11110100 101011011 01111010 1010001010 0101100110010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, there, only, they, here are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word here is repeated.
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