This is an analysis of the poem A Story For Rose On The Midnight Flight To Boston that begins with:

Until tonight they were separate specialties,
different stories, the best of their own worst. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcXcdcdeeffaagegehahaXefefbdbd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010110101100 10010010111 1011101101010 10111101101 101111001011 1011111000011 11101011001 11101110101 1111111101 100101011101 01110001101110 01001111011010 101101101010 100111111010 1011010000110 1111111101010 1001010001011 1010101001010 001000110101001 1011100110110 01011001110 01110100111 10101100010010 1000010110011 010110110100101 1011111110010 10010111000010 11101110 010010 111111111 1110001011010 11101011111111 111111101010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1609
  • Average number of words per stanza: 290
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; my, to are repeated.

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