Poem Analysis of In The Train by James Thomson for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem In The Train that begins with:

AS we rush, as we rush in the Train,
The trees and the houses go wheeling back, ... full text

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Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eded
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 111111001 1110101101 1010100101 110111 101001001 1101001001 10011111 100011 101101011 101010101 1110010011 1011011
Amount of stanzas: 3
Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
Average number of words per stanza: 29
Amount of lines: 12
Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
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 is repeated.

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In The Train by James Thomson: poem analysis

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