This is an analysis of the poem Travel that begins with:
The railroad track is miles away,
And the day is loud with voices speaking, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab abab cbcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101001 1010101010 1100011111 11101010 111000111 1010111110 1110101101 1101010 11010111 110111010 1100011101 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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More information about poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Analysis of [four Sonnets (1922)]
- Analysis of Witch-Wife
- Analysis of If I Should Learn, In Some Quite Casual Way
