This is an analysis of the poem Work Gangs that begins with:
Box cars run by a mile long.
And I wonder what they say to each other...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabcbXX ba baXdXbeXbbcbXdeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,2,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011 11101110110 1110111011 101101 1101100101100101 110101001010111011 1100110001010 11010001101110110001001001111010100101011 1011001110110 1011110110110111 1010110010 10100101 10111110 11111011 1010011101 0010011 101001001110 0011011100 00110101101010 011011101 10111111110 1011111110101 0100110 0111101101111111111101 100010011001111110101011101010001110010111110001001001011101011001111101 101010011010011101111110111101011111110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 443
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 67 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; from, i, with, of, load, came, year, and, how, in, night, long, for, way are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, then, how, in, and are repeated.
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- summary of Work Gangs;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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