This is an analysis of the poem Thompson’s Lunch Room—grand Central Station that begins with:
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccbcXcddefaccXXXXecgagXbccacccXbbXfXXgeXecg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 45,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001 11 1101 10011 10010 1001100 11010 0110101010 001010 110010 0101 110110 1000101 11101 11001 10100 01110011 110000101011 111100100101 10100010001 100101001010 111010101000101010 1111011 10110110 01011110 01101111 1110101101100 1011001001001 1010110111 1010001 011010100 01110010 011010 001011100101 101 11110101 11011011100 0110010101000101 1110101010 1110010 01011100010 01101010001010101 10110101 1010010 010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1579
- Average number of words per stanza: 259
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; of, green, grey are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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