This is an analysis of the poem An Incident In A Railroad Car that begins with:

He spoke of Burns: men rude and rough
Pressed round to hear the praise of one... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd XcXc efeg hihi cjcj dada dkdk fhfh Xbjb lmlm bfbg bjbj nene cccc dcdc dcdc lblb ofog pbpb boboXdfdf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11011111 11010101 1111010101 111111 11111101 10010111 0111110101 010111 10110101 111010111 1001111111 110001 01011111 11010001 0101111111 010100 11110101 10110101 1100010100 110111 110111001 10010101 1111110101 011111 10111101 00111101 111001001101 011101 11011101 11100101 10010101110 110101 01010111 11000101 1100011101 0101010 11101000 01111101 0100010101 010101 11010101 11110101 1101110101 010111 11010101 100110111 111000101 1010100 11110101 110101001 1001010101 011101 00110101 11010101 1001011101 10011001 11010101 00110101 11001011101 0100100 10110111 11001110111 0011110011 001101 11110101 10111101 1001010101 010001 1001001 110100111 1110111111 0010101 01010001 11110111 1111111101 100100 11010001 11011111 1101110001 110101 01110111 11010101 1101011111 0010001 11100111 10010001 1101011101 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 88
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase god connects the lines.

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