This is an analysis of the poem Calgary Station that begins with:
DAZZLED by sun and drugged by space they wait,
These homeless peoples, at our prairie gate;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccXXddee ddaaccef eeggaa ccXbeeee ddbbbXhhggii aaeeii jjeekk aaggddjjll jjeeccefbbbbbXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,8,6,8,12,6,6,10,16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1011111111 1101011101 1001011111 1001011001 01100010111 0101011101 0101010101 0111000101 0111010101 11010101001 1101110111 110010111001 1111010101 1101010101 0111110101 1111010101 0111010101 0101010011 1111011110 1111010100 1001011101 1011011111 1101110101 1101011101 0011111101 11110111001 1001010111 0100011111 10011101010 0111011111 1000110111 11010101001 1100111111 1111011001 0101000101 1111011111 1001011101 1101010101 1101011111 1110111110 1101000101 0101000100 1101010101 0011010101 1100110111 1101110101 0101010101 1101010101 1101110100 1001011101 1101110101 0101110111 0100111101 1101011101 1111011111 10111001001 1101010101 11010010101 1111010101 0111010101 1101010101 1111110100 1111111101 11111111001 1111011101 1111110111 1001001111 1111010101 01001110111 0101110001 1011010111 1011000101 01001111111 0111011111 01001111100 0101001100 10011111001 0111011111 0100011001 1101011111 0101011101 01010101110 1111010101 1011010111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 369
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; from, and, her, to, he, their, that, some, land are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words from, here, and are repeated.
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- summary of Calgary Station;
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