This is an analysis of the poem The Iron Bridge that begins with:
I am standing on a disused iron bridge
that was erected in 1902,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbcdX efeghhXihifg cjgXjbg diaXhk giXg hkgiXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,12,7,6,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010100101 1101001 01000101100001 0111011 01001000100 111001001011 100110001000100 111110101010 10101001 1011010010 1111011 101111010 10101010 011101 1100111 1000101010 0101101011 111101011 1101100101 11101110 11110010110 1011010 10101110011 11101010 111111110100 111010110101 0111101111100 11101010 1010010110101 10001001 10101011010 1101011101 1111 10101010 111111011 11011010100011 1110111010 110111 10110111 111111011 101010001 0111111010010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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, and, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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