This is an analysis of the poem Week-End that begins with:

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The train! The twleve o'clock for paradise. ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacdbecefgfghX XaiaXcffeaeajj Xcjcjbibiafafee XccccbkcXfgfgii aglglhfhffmfmcc acebegngncacagg XgogXpkpkffffoX Xjejealalpipiff XadhhlelXdiaillXbieieaiaigffgfee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,14,15,15,15,15,15,15,32,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 0101011101 1010010101 10010100101 1101011100 1111010101 1111010101 0101111101 1011110101 1101010111 0101100101 1001010101 1101011111 0111010101 1011010111 1 0101010101 0111110101 0101110101 11100111110 0101000101 0111010111 1101010101 0100010111 0101010001 1111110101 1001000101 11110110111 1111110101 1 0101010001 01010110111 1001110111 0101110101 1001010101 01001000101 1101010001 1011010101 1011011111 0101101101 1111011100 1001010001 10111111010 01010101010 1 11010100101 1001110100 0101000111 0101010101 1100010100 10001001001 1101110101 1111011101011 1101010111 1011010101 1111010111 1101011101 1101010111 1100111111 1 1101011101 1111010111 01001010101 0101010101 0101110101 1111111101 1111011101 1101010111 1111110101 1001010101 0111000101 0101010011 1101011101 1110111101 1 1011010101 11001010101 0101110001 1001100101 0101110001 11110101010 101000111001 11010001010 1010010101 1100110101 1110000101 1101011101 1001010011 0101001011 1 0111110101 0111011101 01010010111 1101010111 11111101110 1101010111 01010101010 1011010001 1101011111 1111110101 1111011101 110101001001 1111010111 111111111111 1 0101011111 0111110011 1101110011 1001110101 1001110111 1111010011 1101111101 1101110101 1111010101 0101000111 1101010100 1111010001 1011010101 1101010101 1 0101010111 0100011100 1101110001 1101000101 0111010101 1001001001 1001000101 1011111110 1101011100 1110010001 01010101001 01010011111 1111110111 11010100101 1 1101110101 0111010001 0100011101 1011100101 1111010101 1010110101 0101010011 11110010101 1101010101 1111010001 111 0010111 1001010001 0001010101 1001011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 612
  • Average number of words per stanza: 108
  • Amount of lines: 150
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, they, that, cuckoo, we, we're, be, late are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a, we're are repeated.

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