This is an analysis of the poem At The Station Of The Versailles Railway that begins with:

I WAITED for the train unto Versailles.
I hung with bonnes and gamins on the bridge... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xaabbccadeffde
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1101011001 1101110101 10010011101 1011010101 1001010101 1111010101 0101110101 1001111001 1101110101 1001011101 1001010100 0111110111 1010010111 1101111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 603
  • Average number of words per stanza: 109
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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