This is an analysis of the poem Riding Round The Lines that begins with:
Dust and smoke against the sunrise out where grim disaster lurks
And a broken sky-line looming like unfinished railway works,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aabb ccXb ddbb bbbb eebb bbff ffbb gghh iijj ffXbXjjbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111010111110101 101011101010111 101111101010101 0010010101010101 1010000101011101 111011101110111 101111111110111 111011101110101 100111110100111001 0010010101010101 1011101010101100 111010101110101 100010101010101 101000101111111 101101101010101 101010101110101 111010101010100 101010100010101 1011100101011101 001110101010101 1010101010011101 1011001010100101 101111101110101 1010010101010101 001011101110101 11011101111101 111110100010101 110011101111101 1001110100100101 1001110101111101 111011101010101 111010111110101 101110101110101 101010101010001 111010101010101 001000100011001 101110101010101 111110101011001 001100101010001 1001010101110101 111111101111101 111111101110111 0010101000111100 001111101110111 111111001010111 111010101111111 111010111110101 110111101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, trot, they, there, s, crack, he, his, of, same, in, our, we, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, he, there, in, i are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word lines at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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