This is an analysis of the poem The Stage-Driver's Story that begins with:
It was the stage-driver's story, as he stood with his back to the
wheelers,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcd cefg cbdh dgijd biklj kmhj gdced kcig bmdag fclmdfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,5,5,4,5,4,5,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101101011100100 10 1001001110010011 110101110010011 110110011010011010 1011011011111101 11010110010110010 1111011111011011 110010011010010110 110101011010010 1111101110010010 100101010111110 1001001010110010 11101111010110 1010111111010010 110101110010011 01110011100101 100 110111110010110 10110101010101 10 110101111010110 110101111010010 1111011011010010 1101011011110010 110101111110010 0101101111010010 11110100001011010 1010011010010110 1101011010111010 10110110010010 010 1001011011110010 1001001110010110 0100110111101010 1100111011110010 1111001110110010 1101101110110010 0111001111001010 11001100110110100 10 101101010011011 110110111110111 10 11000100111111 1110 0111101111110111 10
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 267
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, i, of, you, and, to, be, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word then is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word thundered at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Stage-Driver's Story;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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