This is an analysis of the poem On The Night Train that begins with:
Have you seen the bush by moonlight, from the train, go running by?
Blackened log and stump and sapling, ghostly trees all dead and dry; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabX cccbX bbbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 111011110011101 101111101011111 101010101010101 111011101111111 10010111110111110 011010111010001 101110101110111 111010100011001 011010101111111 10010111110111110 001010101010111 011011100011101 1011011101010111 11111111011101 0010111110111110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 345
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 68 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you, bush are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word old at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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