This is an analysis of the poem Second Class Wait Here that begins with:
At suburban railway stations--you may see them as you pass--
there are signboards on the platform saying 'Wait here second class,'... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbaX XaaXX ccXX aabX ddee ddbX ffbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011101110111 111010111011101 101011101010101 1000101010111 11101 101110 10001010101110 101010100010111 101011101010101 111000111010111 1110101010101110 111010100010111 101111101010101 101011101011101 10110001001101110 1010111010110001 101011100110101 1010101010101101 1000101010101110 101010101010101 101010100011011 1110111010111001 1001010101011101 1011110001011111 111010101011101 101011101010101 1010101010101110 101011101010101 100110101011011 101110110110001 1110101010101110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 273
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (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; and, class, wait, second, here, glistened are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words glistened, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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