This is an analysis of the poem Chemin De Fer that begins with:
Alone on the railroad track
I walked with pounding heart....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb bcXc dede XaXa XbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110111 110101 01011010 1101101 01001010 111101 0101110 110101 10101101 11111 10100100 1001101 01011011 10110101 10011010 011111 1010100100 10110 0101110 1110010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Chemin De Fer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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