This is an analysis of In The City Of Slaughter (Excerpt) by Hayyim Nahman Bialik.
Proceed thence to the ruins, the split walls reach,
Where wider grows the hollow, and greater grows the breach;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcb Xccdd XXXXXee
- Stanza lengths: 6,5,7,
- Metre: 01100100111 1101010110101 1100101010101 11110111101 01010111110 1101110101 1010101010 010101010 10101010 1111010101 010011 1100110000 1001010101 0011000101 110110001100 1011110101 1001110111 1101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 18
