This is an analysis of the poem The Railway Train that begins with:
I like to see it lap the miles,
And lick the valleys up,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb acac XdXd XcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101010 110101 11010111 110101 0101010 1101001 01010101 110101 01011101 010101 0101010 1101101 111100 1100101 11010100 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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.
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 and is repeated.
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