This is an analysis of the poem I thought the Train would never come that begins with:
I thought the Train would never come -
How slow the whistle sang - ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbXcacXddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 110101 11010101 11001001 11110101 010101 01010111 010101 01110011 010011 11001100 010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 342
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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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