This is an analysis of the poem From Paris To Brussels (11 P.M. 15 October To Half-Past 1 P.M. 16) Proem At The Paris Station that begins with:

In France (to baffle thieves and murderers)
A journey takes two days of passport work ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdcedXbXeXfXabgbdcgggaXaeaXcf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 31,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101011100 0101110111 11010101001 1101010101 0101011101 0101011101 1100101111 11011100010 1111110111 1101010101 11011000011 1101011001 1100111101 0101011101 1011011101 1100010011 0110011111 1101110101 01010101001 1000111101 0111100111 0101110111 1111011101 1111110100 1111010101 0101101100 1001011001 0111010111 0101011111 1111010100 0100011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1368
  • Average number of words per stanza: 255
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; we, it, to are repeated.

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

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