This is an analysis of the poem The Birth Of The Rail that begins with:
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
LELAND, THE KID _a Road Agent_... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bccd bX A bbbebfbghbeeb I XbjbbhcfXkhfbifcjb X ciliccbmfjdmnmbiflkh I eXeh A lhiinXjlbXb I hf X ifdXd A enecjnXnbciie X j I j d XheX ggiiiiieeg I iebX ai X iaiXfn XXff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,2,1,13,1,18,1,20,1,4,1,11,1,2,1,5,1,13,1,1,1,1,1,4,10,1,4,2,1,6,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 100010 10010110 111011010 1010100101 100010 1011111111101 01 1110 1111100101 01000101011 1111110111 01000101001 1000010001 0100010101 0101110111 1100111100 1000010101 01000101 1111010101 11001101100 1001011101 1001 1101011101 1111010101 0100010111 0111000101 1001011101 1100110101 1101111101 1001001101 0101010111 1000010011 1111011101 0111010101 1111010101 1101011101 1111010001 1100110101 0101010111 1101011111 1010 1111110111 0101000101 1101110101 1101011101 1100010100 0101000001 0111010101 1101110111 0111010100 1100110101 0101010101 0101111101 0101010001 1101110111 1101010111 1101010101 1011011101 1101110101 0101110101 0101001101 1001 1101010101 0100010001 1111011100 0101 1110 010001 0101010111 0100010111 0110011101 0101001100 0101011111 1111110101 1101011101 1011110111 11011101110 11000010 1001 101 11 1010 11011111 0101110111 0110110111 1110110011 10111101111 1110 0111010100 1101010101 0011110111 1101010101 1101011101 0101110101 0111000101 1101110001 1101000101 1001000101 0101010101 01010010001 0101 1010 01 1001 01 1 10 1101011010101 11100001001111 11101001 11010 010010 1101101 01 11001 11001 111 010010 010010 011 1001 1101111111 0101010011 1101010101 01001101011 1010011010001100 10101011 100 111111 110100 101101 111100 11101101010 1111 1010 1111010 10
- Amount of stanzas: 33
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 138
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, rolled are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, from are repeated.
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