This is an analysis of the poem In The Baggage Room At Greyhound that begins with:
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In the depths of the Greyhound Terminal ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bacddXefgahijdcXXkhlgidmdicfllidcnbf X fmjXkcm X occXlkXXjfgnXXgdXlcjfohXfeid X idglcmXfccc eicXcg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,36,1,7,1,28,1,11,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 0010011100 10101010110101 1010110001001 10001010010011010 01111110 10111101101100 1101010010100 0111000101 10100101000100 101011 1101000110010 1001001111 11100101100011 10101 101001100011001 1001 10111001001001 1110100110 111001101001 111101010111 10100100110 1010001100 1101001010010 101 111010001011 1010010100 1010111001001 11101001001 100110101001011 1100010 10101111010 1110101010 1110101010 1 1101000010010 11 1 11010101001001 10110111010101 11 1000100111110 110 10111101011001 1101101110101 1 010111011011110 01101111101 1101 01011101110 11101010110 010 0101110111100 1010111 1100110100101 01011010 10010101111010 10010101 101010100010010 1010 1101110 1010010101110 10101100111000 0101111011110 00101010111 01001001101001 101001010101 11010100100100 1 0101011010101 100101 101010111100100 101111111 01 1 01010101010101 1010110 011000111110 10110101 1010011111111 11001010010 11 11011010100 1110111111011 001111010110 1 01111011011100 01010 010110110100 11111111011 111111111 110010110010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 403
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 92
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; of, to, for, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nor is repeated.
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