This is an analysis of The City In The Sea by Edgar Allan Poe.
Lo! Death has reared himself a throne
In a strange city lying alone…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbbcbcbDd aadXdccccaaaDdeeaa ccddffggddaa eeffaahhcgXg
- Stanza lengths: 11,18,12,12,
- Metre: 11110101 001101001 1101011 100101101101 11010101 111100110 110101101 01010101 01110101 10000101 01010101 1100101011 10111011 11010101 11010100 110100111 11111101 110110111 1100101010 010101110 11011001001 11010001 010100101 10000101 01010101 110101111 11110001 100110001 11100001 110101101 110001001 11010111 0110101 10101001 1010011 1110101 01110001 11011110 011111001 11011110 111100001 11010001 01100101 100101101 01010011 101111010 010101010 01110101 010110111 11011101 11111101 110001010 110100
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 53
Repeated words/phrases
and, up, that
Anaphora
up, the
