This is an analysis of the poem A Second Train Song For Gary that begins with:
When the trains come into strange cities
The citizens come out to meet the strangers....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaBBcaaBBcadDDeadFFceaFFe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101100110 01001101010 111111 111111 101010 1100100110 01001101010 111111 111111 001010 01001101010 11001111010 11010101 11010101 00110 11011101010 01010001010 110101 110101 11110 11110100110 01011101010 111101 111101 00110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1407
- Average number of words per stanza: 153
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines said, streets, you are repeated).
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