This is an analysis of the poem On The Great Atlantic Rainway that begins with:
I set forth one misted white day of June
Beneath the great Atlantic rainway, and heard:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcaabbaabca XXXdaXdaacca Xeeccddbfaaf X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101101 01010101011 100111011 1111011010 011101001 1111111011 111010010101011 01111001010011 111110101101 11101111 11101101010101101 111101010101 1100100100100 01101011011010 10110111010 1010111010 11101000001001 0011101111001 1110101011 100010001110 110111100110 100011101 010000001010011 0111011101 1110101010000 101111111 010110010101 10100111101 11111110101 011101101111 11010011100111 1011000110 0111110110010 110111001001 111101010101 001111110101 10101010000101001011011001110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 485
- Average number of words per stanza: 86
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, in, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
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