This is an analysis of the poem Train Ride that begins with:

After rain, through afterglow, the unfolding fan
of railway landscape sidled onthe pivot...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdeEffgdgdhfehcihXjdEXXjiXkdaehjkheXbjbehXXagdfXEaje
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 54,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 101110100101 0111110110 001010001010 1010111101001 11110011 11010000111 111011001010 11110100110 10100011100101 101101100101 1110101010100 111000111010 111010101 110110101010 11110001111 110001101010 001001011010 110011011101 0111011101 1101111101 10101010111 0101100101 11010000111 1101111111 11000110111000 10111101001 11001111010111 110110100111 1110110011 010011101001010 1001101011 1010110001 0001001111 1100011111 10011101101 101011010011 011 10110 1011110001 11011111 10100101011 010110110101 0100101110 01011101100 01 1100001001011 0100011011 10100101010 1011010110 011010111 11010000111 11111111 0111011 0111011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2320
  • Average number of words per stanza: 431
  • Amount of lines: 54
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; of, we, to, and are repeated.

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

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