This is an analysis of the poem The Orient Express that begins with:
One looks from the train
Almost as one looked as a child. In the sunlight...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacccadceeXXXffaXdgcceachagaXbbfhg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 35,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001 111111010011 11111011 1111110 101100100 1000110101 1100101 11100011001 1110111100 100110101 0011000101 11110011 0111010010 11010 1001110001 11101 1110101 1101111 010011111 1000101 11100101 110011010 1001010011 11000011001 11010011 011011110100 010100101 011101001 011011101101 10101100 1111001101 0011010101 00110101 011011011 0010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1266
- Average number of words per stanza: 235
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, it are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines world is repeated).
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