This is an analysis of the poem 'Boes that begins with:
I waited today for a freight train to pass.
Cattle cars with steers butting their horns against the...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcdefegeXXaXafgadhhcdbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001101101 101011011010 111 10101010111001 1 10101010011 1001101010111010 100010 10101110010011 101010 0010101111001010 101010 111110111010000 1001001 100110111110 11010110 101101110100101 111001010110 10 10101010100101001 111111011110 100010 10111101111 1101011111101 11101111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1051
- Average number of words per stanza: 190
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and, got are repeated.
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