This is an analysis of the poem Way-Station that begins with:
The incoherent rushing of the train
Dulls like a drugged pain ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa Xb bb Xcc d d ee ff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,3,1,1,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 0001010001 11011 1 011010001001 01 1011010111 10010 001 101110101 100110011 01 01010001 11110101 11100101 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 50
- Average number of words per stanza: 9
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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