This is an analysis of the poem Southern Pacific that begins with:
HUNTINGTON sleeps in a house six feet long.
Huntington dreams of railroads he built and owned....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc abc Xa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ottava rima
- Metre: 1001001111 10010111111 1001011011011 1001001111 1001011111 1001010010011 100 1001010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; huntington, blithery are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words huntington, blithery are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word sir at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Southern Pacific;
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