This is an analysis of the poem On Memphis Station that begins with:
Half awake and half dozing,
Struck by a drear reality, but still lost...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcada befg hiXjkd fjfejccjl chck jabXj kkcehd ckkkimbnm afaallXm bgnbaa fkdaXchki nkbbc jmeb kickijaknkX jiccecck kdiXjkj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,6,9,4,5,6,9,8,6,9,5,4,11,8,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011110 11010100111 01101101001 111100 11010101 0010 01011001010 101101 00101100 101010101000 110111101010 111110011 11010111100 011100101 10001011010 101111 11010101100 10100110 010101000 01111011 010100101001 10101111110 0110101010 11010101 11101001 1111000010 1010100010 1111111011 0001010101010 1011010 101001011010 010001010010 111111010 1111011 11111010 101110101 10101010111 11010101 011000101110 1010101 101101101010 100011100 010110101010 110100111 00110001 101011 111001 101001 00110111 00001 1001110 100111100100 011010110 101 0101101 0111100 1101111 111010101 101001110101 10010101010011 100110011 01001 001010 111101010 00101010 1001 11011001010 11000100110100 01110110010 1101011010 0001001 1010110011 10101011011 1001101010 1111010100010 101011001101 110101001101 01101101001 011001101001101 110100111101 1111101101 011011010 1100110101 101110101001010 11100010 1111101 1110110001010 1110101011 11101111011 101111010 0101010 1111010101 1111100011 111101101 01010011 010100110111 1011100111 110100101 1110010 100111 1110111 11010110011 1001100101 11101 101010 0101011001
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 106
- 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; and, in, your, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words why, the, how, doesn't, it are repeated.
The author used the same word compose at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase rain connects the lines.
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