This is an analysis of the poem Subway Wind that begins with:
Far down, down through the city's great, gaunt gut,
The gray train rushing bears the weary wind; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdaeaeafaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010111 0111010101 0011010111 1001110101 1111010101 0111010001 11010001001 0101111111 1101110101 1101011111 1011010101 1001010001 1001011101 1110100101 1111000111 1011010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 750
- Average number of words per stanza: 130
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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