This is an analysis of the poem Striking that begins with:
It was a railway passenger,
And he lept out jauntilie.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXab cddd ceffX XgbgdgddX aXeX dhdddh eaegbXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,9,4,6,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011100 111110 11111110 111001 1101101111 110011 1100110101 1100101 11110101 11100101 11110010 0110011111 001001010 11010110 010011 1100111101 1010111 111110111 1110111 11101111110 011110111 1100111 111101110 10011111 110111111 1100111 11010101 100110111 110101101 111101101 0101110101 1100101 1100100111 0110100110 1111101101 1101011 1100101111 11100111110 111010101 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; at, or, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.
The author used the same word 'now at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Striking;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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